Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sympathies have been clear for some time. Distrustful of Don Juan, he played a major role in arranging the young prince's Spanish education and made sure that it included commissions from all three military academies. Last week he tipped his hand further by creating the title of "heir to the throne," which could put Juan Carlos in No. 2 position on the protocol ladder-right behind him. Now all that remains is for Juan Carlos to be formally declared the heir...
...guarantee Pompidou his first choice, they certainly lessened his chances of ever having to settle for the second. The Gaullist sweep among France's voters-and the turn of events that led to it-have clearly made Pompidou the President's indispensable second-in-command and undisputed heir apparent. "My signature," De Gaulle calls him, and now that seems to carry the imprimatur of succession...
...Time. In California, where he is thinking of second-ballot votes, he missed hardly a stop, skipping from San Francisco's Commonwealth Club to the Town Hall Forum and a private meeting with influential G.O.P. supporters in Los Angeles. "There are some hard-core Nixon people," said Tire Heir Leonard Firestone after the meeting, "but there are lots of open-minded people." At week's end Rocky was at the Republican Governors' Conference in Tulsa, Okla., where he finally won the endorsement of Shafer, who will bring him 40 to 50 of Pennsylvania's 64 convention...
...solution will add costs to the traveler's ticket. Until recently the Federal Government covered 25% of the cost of airport construction. Now the Government wants out. The U.S Secretary of Transportation, Alan S. Boyd, recently proposed that, except for special cases, airports and airlines do all heir own financing, cover the cost of revenue bonds by means of higher ticket taxes and new taxes on fuel and cargo. Meanwhile, with expansions necessary and costly new construction planned, airports are already increasing landing fees and other charges...
...brother's death and Bob Kennedy's emergence as the heir to the innovative, electric style of the late Kennedy Administration seemed to push his evolution apace. Opponents said that Kennedy had determined to carve out a leftish, intra-party opposition to President Johnson as the surest means to capitalize on his brother's reputation and retrieve the White House for the Kennedy dynasty...