Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rivers, an Australian citizen, will resign her post as professor of French at the University of Illinois so that she can begin teaching at Harvard this fall...
...hard to comprehend the morality and sense of responsibility of a man who savagely guards a tattered personal dignity at the cost of dragging through mud and slime the most august political office of the U.S. Why won't this man resign? America is trudging through a leaderless period, and it has long been obvious that Nixon, whether guilty or innocent, is no longer capable of filling the leadership...
...soon to judge how Nixon's tax scandal might affect his effort to stay through his term of office. Certainly Wilbur Mills was very wide of the mark last month in predicting that Nixon would be forced to resign when his tax liabilities were revealed. Opinion on the President, as judged by polls, has been pretty firmly set for some time, at least at the extremes. Thus the tax charges generated considerable sympathy among his hard-core supporters, while those convinced that the President must go took the tax denouement as additional confirmation of their opinion. The split in reaction...
...telling point. There were immediate charges that the report was a whitewash and Elazar was being made a scapegoat. The Tel Aviv daily Yediot Aharonot declared that both Premier Meir and Dayan were "full partners in the blunder," and should resign. The most serious threats came from within the ruling Labor Party. Deputy Premier Yigal Allon, who was upset by the humiliation of his old comrade-in-arms Elazar, told Knesset colleagues that Dayan must go. There were rumors that Allon would back up his demands by threatening to resign himself...
...Faculty voted to dispense with precedent and bypass the official viewpoint. With only minor changes, the Faculty decided to accept the Afro proposal. The vote caused an angered Henry Rosovsky, then a professor of Economics and a leader in the drive to bring black studies to Harvard, to resign his seat from the Standing Committee. The vote also touched off a still-explosive debate over whether the Faculty had sacrified its prerogatives and principles by letting itself be compromised by militancy...