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Bundy was approached in Washington by John J. McCloy, Ford Foundation chairman, who will resign on January 1. It has been reported that McCloy will be succeeded by Julias A. Stratton, president of M.I.T. A source close to Stratton said that Stratton had accepted the chairmanship...
...Rhodesia Smith inherited was not conciliatory either. When the United Party decided to accept the 1961 constitution, Smith resigned in a rage-and immediately received a telegram of congratulations from archconservative Tobacco Tycoon Douglas Collard Lilford. "Ian Smith, and Ian Smith alone, was the one to get up and say no," recalls "Boss" Lilford. "He was the only blessed one to resign. This man has steel in him." Smith drove out to Lilford's estate near Salisbury, talked the tobacco man into helping him found the Rhodesian Front to preserve "Rhodesia for the Rhodesians...
...decisions. So Ike devised his own "simple, logical test to see whether I was physically and mentally capable of serving as President"; he decided to attend a "presumably strenuous" NATO conference in Paris in December, 1957. "If I felt the results to be less than satisfactory, then I would resign," he recalls. All went well, and he even made a speech...
...reward for Morrissey's services, President Kennedy first proposed elevating him to the federal bench in 1961, but backed down when the three bar associations balked; the Boston judgeship has been conspicuously vacant ever since. Three years later, when Bobby Kennedy was about to resign as U.S. Attorney General, he asked Lyndon Johnson to name Morrissey to the federal court. Morrissey's cause has been pressed since then by Teddy Kennedy, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts, who has had a particularly close relationship with the old family factotum. "Teddy's attitude toward Morrissey," says one Washingtonian who knows...
...could thus perpetuate themselves in of fice. Beginning with the convention in San Francisco next December, executive council nominations will be made from the floor, then voted on. The change not only ensures the end of self-perpetuation but serves tactful notice to many members that they can either resign gracefully before December or be rudely ousted at the convention. Had he received any resignations from members lately, someone asked George Meany. Replied Meany: "Not in this century...