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...dozen years later, the freshmen and sophomores staged a massive battle in the dining room, pelting each other with fruit and vegetables. When several were suspended, students congressed once again under Rebellion Elm, and the entire sophomore class decided to resign from the College. They recanted within two weeks, but not all were readmitted. This effort also inspired a poetic outpouring: a poem in four cantos, "Rebelliad; or Terrible Transactions at the Seat of the Muses...
...program had scarcely started when investigators claimed that fully one-fourth of the youths drawing salaries came from families well above the poverty line. One indiscreet Youth Corps girl tooled to work in a 1965 Thunderbird, was asked to resign. In Macoupin County, Ill., Democratic officials turned the program into a patronage pie for their children until OEO found out and ordered 83 youngsters dropped. Protested one $9,000-a-year Democrat jobholder whose stepson was bounced: "He comes from a broken home, don't he? Anyway, to the victors goes the spoils. You know what I mean...
...constituent assembly will be held as scheduled, some time in September," Ky explained. "The assembly will draw up a constitution. The congress must be chosen in another election, some time in 1967. So if the sky and the airplane-and particularly my wife-don't force me to resign, I'll be in power at least one more year...
First he called Parliament into emergency session, rammed through a constitutional amendment forcing the rebels to resign their seats and run for office again, this time against KANU's powerful opposition instead of with its support. Then, before a mass rally in Nairobi last week, he produced four former Mau Mau leaders who told the shocked crowd that Odinga had offered them nearly $500,000 to return to the forests to fight Kenyatta. "If you play around with me," warned the Mzee, "you'll be playing around with a lion." So saying, he reshuffled his Cabinet, putting...
...reference letters to help offset the stigma of being an ex-FBI man at 25. The third refused to help Carter; instead, he told his superiors about his friends' action, which also violates the FBI code. The upshot was that all three-including the informer-were pressed to resign because none had reported Carter's original indiscretion...