Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Common Market. If he had any worries about his future, he did not show them. But the rumors about Rusk are rampant in Washington: the President has shunted him aside, Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy has displaced him as the No. 1 foreign policy adviser, Rusk is about to resign, his successor will be Bundy or maybe even Bobby Kennedy. "I shudder at this possibility," says a State Department official, "but I know too much to say it's out of the question...
...stressed the part played by churches in the founding of the University, and said that the first president had been forced to resign because he did not believe in infant baptism...
Failed Objective. Park finally capitulated. He forced Kim to resign his party post, last week sent him on a 50-day foreign inspection trip as his "ambassador plenipotentiary." No sooner had Kim left than investigators began exploring rumors that he had used his powerful C.I.A. job to make a stock market killing and to mulct kickbacks from government contractors. Before 3,000 screaming politicians in Seoul's Citizens Hall, Park announced grimly that he was bowing out of the presidential race. "I cannot help admitting." he said, "that the revolutionary government has failed completely in achieving its political objective...
Party Asunder. At that, another Conservative newspaper turned against Diefenbaker. Snapped the Toronto Telegram: "This man cannot expect again to lead his country." At a stormy party caucus, Trade Minister Hees once more urged Diefenbaker to resign, demanded at the very least a promise that Diefenbaker would not campaign on a platform of destructive anti-Americanism. Diefenbaker seemed to agree, but then in his first TV speech, he angered the Cabinet rebels all over again with statements about "loss of sovereignty" and "domination...
...chair when Landa vacated it in 1959. Karr then moved himself up to chairman and brought in George A. Strichman from International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. to be president. Last week it was Karr's turn to go. After a bitter attempt to hold on, he was forced to resign by Fairbanks Whitney's board. The new chairman and president: George A. Strichman...