Word: heir
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Born. To Crown Princess Beatrix of The Netherlands, 29, and Prince Claus, formerly Claus von Amsberg, 40, onetime West German diplomat: their first child, a son, thus presenting the 400-year-old House of Orange-Nassau with its first male heir in 111 years; in Utrecht, The Netherlands...
Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Detroit faced the most important political decision of his career early this year. Since he was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1964, Conyers had been considered the heir apparent to Adam Clayton Powell as the nation's leading Negro Democratic politician. Now he was asked to join the nine-man committee set up to examine Powell's sins and recommend whether the Harlem leader should be seated. Conyers knew that Congress was in a nasty mood over Powell's behavior -- indignant over Powell's bravado and scared over increasingly widespread feeling that...
Path of Wickedness. Kanellopoulos (pronounced Can-nel-/op-o-luss), 65, is also a former professor. A onetime teacher of sociology at Athens University, he has been in and out of Greek politics for more than 40 years. He is the heir to ex-Premier Constantine Karamanlis, who was also deplored by the left. The elder Papandreou charged that in choosing Kanellopoulos the King had chosen "the path of wickedness." His party's newspaper warned of the possibility of a dictatorship, and promised that in such a case "the people will mobilize massively to overthrow the regime." At week...
...things to all men-fund raiser, politician, scholar, pressagent, long-range planner, public speaker, banqueteer with a cast-iron digestion. Another problem is that few schools like the idea of a built-in successor. If an outgoing president tries to groom an up-and-coming administrator as a potential heir apparent, says Stanford Graduate Business Dean Ernest Arbuckle, "that can be the kiss of death." Many otherwise qualified professors consider an administrative job as "going over to the enemy"-and claim that they can make more money staying where they are. Because they generally lack the right scholarly credentials, corporation...
Married. Phyllis Field Drummond, 30, daughter of the late Marshall Field III, heir to the Chicago department-store empire and publisher of the Chicago Sun-Times; and Louis de Flers, 35, general manager of a French chemical firm; she for the second time, he for the first; in Ridgeland...