Word: heir
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...when his brother died, he began his battle to inherit the baronetcy. As the nearest male relative, he seemed entitled to press the claim. But a cousin, 40-year-old John Forbes-Sem-pill, contested the succession, asserting that he was the rightful heir because Sir Ewan had been registered as female at birth and females cannot inherit baronetcies. "My client," Sir Ewan's counsel retorted, "has been male since birth. He was wrongly registered as a female." Earlier this year, an Edinburgh court accepted Sir Ewan's arguments, and last week Home Secretary James Callaghan settled...
...office has changed drastically, partly because the chief executive's job has become so burdensome that genuine help from the Vice President might be highly useful, but more obviously, because John Kennedy's assassination has dramatized the fact that the Vice President really must be considered the President's heir. Both Agnew and Nixon now face the challenge of erasing the doubts about the 39th Vice President and preparing him for the potential role his office is designed to fill...
...defeat of ex-Governor Sam Goddard, aided by a liquor-board scandal uncovered in the debris of Goddard's earlier regime. Wisconsin's Warren Knowles, 60, who was not favored to retain the governorship following a divorce earlier this year, managed to trounce Democrat Bronson LaFollette, 32, heir to a grand old Badger State name, but a man of little political experience. New Mexico's David Cargo, 39, barely squeaked past Democrat Fabian Chavez in a down-to-the-wire race. On the other hand, such Democrats as Missouri's Warren Hearnes, 45, North Dakota's William...
Simons is equally unimpressed by another traditional argument for infallibility: that the Apostles in their teaching had the special protection of the Holy Spirit, and that the church is heir to that divine guidance. Whenever the Apostles call upon the Paraclete for assistance, he points out, it is only to refresh their recollections about details of Christ's ministry, and never to appeal for "proof that their teaching is true." Simons cites Jesus' declaration in John 14:26: "The Holy Spirit will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said...
Died. Julius Fleischmann, 68, heir to the Fleischmann liquor fortune, who used his wealth to help finance the Ballet Russe, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera and numerous Broadway plays (Pygmalion, 1946; Caesar and Cleopatra, 1949); of cancer; in Cincinnati...