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...certain point, the election went as planned. Jagan piled up only 45.8% of the vote; Burnham won 40.5% and stood ready to form a coalition with the third-running United Force Party (12%), headed by Portuguese Businessman Peter d'Aguiar. But then Cheddi simply refused to resign. "The election was fraudulent," he announced. "The British government will have to force me out." Unimpressed, the governor formally appointed Burnham Prime Minister...
...There has been a lot of discussion as to whether J. Edgar Hoover should be asked to resign from the FBI after his recent remarks about Martin Luther King and the Warren Report," wrote Syndicated Columnist Art Buchwald last week. "I can now reveal for the first time why President Johnson can't ask J. Edgar Hoover to resign. The reason is J. Edgar Hoover doesn't exist. He is a mythical person first thought up by the Reader's Digest.'" Buchwald went on to develop his theme: that even the name was a phony, attached...
...Viri. Demobbed, Haldane took a post as a lecturer in biochemistry at Cambridge University. He also took another man's wife, Writer Charlotte Franken. When he had to pay ?1,000 damages as corespondent, the university asked Haldane to resign. He refused. He was called before the Sex Viri* and fired. Haldane appealed, and a special university court upheld Haldane in his contention that a professor's private life is none of the university's business. Then Haldane and Charlotte Franken got married...
...Henry Fowler, who last spring quit as the second-ranking Under Secretary. The department's No. 4 man. General Counsel G. D'Andelot Belin, intends to return soon to his Boston law practice. And Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon has reportedly served notice that he intends to resign by next July...
...Enough Negativism." Smylie's own statement came in a speech last week opening a Denver meeting of the Republican Governors' Association. Of the Governors and Governors-elect who attended, virtually all had opposed Goldwater's nomination, and virtually all would like to see Dean Burch resign. As the Governors convened, there were reports that they would adopt a formal oust-Burch resolution...