Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cheever said that there was "pretty solid opposition" to admitting women among some members of the club. He said that he does not expect anyone to resign from the club as a result of the vote...
...surface, appointing Giscard to France's No. 2 job might seem like political masochism-but wait. According to the script, Pompidou, 61, would not wait for the 1976 elections, when Giscard would be a more potent threat. After naming his new Premier, Pompidou would promptly resign, ask the country for a vote of confidence and get himself re-elected before the left-wing opposition has a chance to catch its breath. Voila! Another seven-year term in the Elysée Palace-if the voters go along with the scenario...
...David Packard picked exactly the right time financially to resign as Deputy Secretary of Defense in December 1971 and resume the chairmanship of Hewlett-Packard, the California electronics company that he and his Stanford classmate William Hewlett founded in a garage in 1939. During his three years in Washington, Packard had put his H-P stock in a trust, which gave to charity $23 million in dividends and capital appreciation. Last year the 60-year-old Packard got the full benefit of a rise in H-P stock from 48 to 87; the value of his holdings zoomed no less...
...Lewis Thomas, the Yale dean, will resign on July 1, Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. announced last week...
...part of a group of students and teachers who are fighting the Duvalier government." The twelve prisoners he had freed included several student leaders and a union leader, Ulrick Jolly, who had spent most of the past ten years in jail. The 13th prisoner, Ambassador Knox, who plans to resign soon anyway, flew to Washington declaring, understandably, "I need a rest...