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...would much prefer to forgo the dubious honor of campaigning against two attractive women. But there is only a slim chance that Young will be able to take on the candidate himself. Glenn probably will not get out of the hospital by April 1. The earliest that he can resign from the Marines after that is May 1. That would give him only a few days in which to campaign before the May 5 election...
Stung by demands that the ailing Prime Minister resign or name a deputy with authority to act as head of the government, Nehru's official family launched a campaign to show that India's evident leadership vacuum does not really exist. Nehru's daughter and chief political troubleshooter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, claimed that her father had "fully recovered" from the stroke he suffered Jan. 7 and that, at 74, "he is much better than he was six months before the illness." Health Minister Sushila Nayar (who was Mahatma Gandhi's physician) said that Nehru...
...intraparty disputes. Then, late one night last month, Barrientos was mysteriously ambushed and shot. The U.S. command pilot wings on his right chest deflected the bullet, and Barrientos was not seriously wounded. Instead, the assassination attempt made him a hero. Sniffing the wind, Paz persuaded Fortún to resign from the ticket. When Barrientos returns soon to La Paz from a Canal Zone hospital, it will be as the M.N.R.'s vice-presidential nominee...
Last December, Superintendent Nus was forced to resign, as of the end of the school year, and most of the departing teachers are quitting out of sympathy for him. The N.E.A.-affiliated Iowa State Education Association has urged all teachers to refuse jobs...
...retrospect, Murphy feels that at one point during his 40-year career he should have resigned in public protest. That was in the summer of 1948 when the Russians had sealed off Berlin and Murphy, who was serving as civilian political adviser to Military Governor Lucius Clay, was summoned with his boss to Washington to discuss the blockade. It consisted at that time of a wooden pole suspended across the highway at Helmstedt-and removable, Murphy was convinced, by a token show of force. The decision to launch the Berlin airlift seemed to him a serious mistake. The dramatic success...