Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...technical document. Robert T. Griffin, the GSA administrator who sent the documents to Smith before the agency's experts had examined it, is a long time Democrat who it appears, placed his loyalty to the Kennedy family over his responsibility to the people of Cambridge. He should resign or be removed from his post...
Yale University's $370-million fund drive has reached $97 million amidst increasing speculation that Yale President Kingman Brewster may resign in late 1975 or early 1976 if the drive appears assured of success...
However, sources close to the Yale Corporation and this week that even though the campaign is running a little behind its five-year timetable. Brewster may resign in time to enter the 1976 Senate race in Connecticut if he thinks the fund drive is "on a firm footing...
NIXON WAS ALWAYS conscious of his moments in history, almost as if he imagined Frank Friedel taking copious notes in the wings while he made his speeches and toured around the world, promising "a generation of peace." It's only right that his moment in history' should be his resignation speech, and CMS records has made that phrase the title for its recording. Again the speech is just another example of Nixon's beat-around-the-bush style. But more than that, it evokes the same frustrations: Nixon didn't resign, he simply didn't "have a strong enough political...
...CULTURAL REVOLUTION, which swept China from May 1966 to April 1969, was Mao's offensive against the new elite. His chief weapon: China's youth. Huge posters denouncing pragmatic leaders such as Liu and Teng Hsiao-ping plastered walls; they and thousands of others were forced to resign in disgrace; millions of people paraded waving little red books containing quotations from Chairman Mao. The movement careened out of control. Exhorted by Mao to "learn revolution by making revolution," the youthful Red Guard attacked "old customs" and destroyed ancient art and cultural works. Rallies replaced work; schools and universities...