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...Ready to Resign. In his exercise of common sense and judgment, Kitchel's sensitivities are sometimes staggered by the folkways of American politics. During Barry's New Hampshire primary campaign, Kitchel watched disgustedly as an eager mother pushed her baby into the candidate's arms. He murmured: "If he kisses that baby, I resign." (Barry didn't kiss and Kitchel didn't resign.) He has also developed a simple expedient for avoiding political arguments that offend him; he simply tunes down his hearing...
...Seymour Jr., was fighting a different battle-to stay in his pulpit. Father Seymour, for 15 years rector of St. Augustine's Trinity Episcopal Church, had admitted Negroes to services a week before, now was under attack by the church's vestry, who were pressuring him to resign. Last week Florida's Episcopal bishop, the Right Rev. Edward Hamilton West, gave Father Seymour his "absolute support." Said Seymour: "The doors of the Episcopal Church are open to anyone, any time...
...three years since Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was assassinated, the Dominican Republic has been governed by one interim President (forced to resign), one seven-man provisional Council (which held elections), one constitutional President (toppled by military coup), and one civilian triumvirate of which not a single original member remains. The last of the three men who took over administration of the unhappy little Caribbean nation ten months ago resigned last week. He was Manuel Tavares Espaillat, 40, a cultured, U.S.-educated (Yale) scholar and the only real administrator and planner in the original triumvirate. He quit because he was disgusted...
...next page). In appointing Taylor, the President demonstrated the premium his Administration places on having a big-name ambassador in South Viet Nama premium so high that in recent weeks Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and Attorney General Robert Kennedy, all anticipating Lodge's resignation, offered to resign their present jobs and take over the Saigon post...
Vowing to change all that in short order or else resign, Auric started boldly by scheduling Alban Berg's fiercely modern Wozzeck. "If I am not able to mount this production," he declared, "I will know that nothing can be done for the National Opera here." He demanded an unprecedented 35 rehearsals, grappled successfully with eleven labor unions (guardians of the Opera's bloated staff of 1,100, including 95 stagehands, 35 firemen, 32 electricians, 30 wardrobe mistresses), but still lacked funds for his crash program...