Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...west lies the dilemma that is Pakistan, and the question of how to proceed with the truce agreement that Shastri negotiated with President Ayub Khan at Tashkent. At home, India is plagued by famine, rising unemployment, and just about every other woe that an overpopulated, poverty-stricken land is heir...
...sell their Krupp shares until the presently depressed market for German coal and steel stocks improves. Last week's public offering also symbolized a growing recognition that one-man, head-of-the-family control over the empire may end with Alfried Krupp himself. His son Arndt, 28, the heir apparent, one of the swiftest of Western Europe's jet set, does not have an intense interest in business affairs. Already there have been suggestions that when Alfried Krupp steps aside, the Krupp holdings be placed in a family trust administered by a Krupp-dominated board...
Cambridge City Manager John J. Curry '19 has appointed a top-level assistant and heir apparent to the City's top administrative post. Many observers viewed be move as an attempt to disrupt a drive to out the 67-year-old manager from office...
Until the dark day dawned, fortune smiled relentlessly on Dilke. Heir to a minor publishing fortune, he was a first-class scholar and athlete at Cambridge, soon after graduation stood successfully for Parliament and then followed up his election with a sociopolitical study of the British Empire (Greater Britain) that hugely impressed the British intellectual and political establishment. At 39, he became the youngest member of the Gladstone Cabinet...
Albania & Albinos. Not that Schlesinger minds. As the heir to a proud historical tradition, he was encouraged from his earliest days to hold the mirror up to everything, past and present, and to declare his judgment of what he saw. His judgments were loud and clear and precociously decisive. Says a friend: "Arthur has always had to contend with an enormous coalition of the envious and the aggrieved-those who are jealous of his talents and those who have suffered from them...