Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When mighty I. G. Farben was broken up by the Allies after World War II, the smallest and least known of the three major offshoots was a company called Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik. Like the two others, Bayer and Hoechst, B.A.S.F. proved to be a true heir to the vaunted Farben inventiveness and enterprise. It quickly rebuilt its bombed-out plants along the Rhine at Ludwigshafen, then spread out over 1,580 acres to develop Europe's largest single chemical complex. Now Europe's leading producer of raw materials for plastics and synthetic fibers, B.A.S.F. increased...
...when he completely withdrew from politics. A machine gun insignia marks those who fought in the Resistance. Any kind of affiliation with De Gaulle, past or present, qualifies a man for the Directory. Thus Raymond Aron, now an opponent of De Gaulle, is listed along with heir-apparent Michele Debre and obscure hatchetmen like Jean-Baptiste Biaggi. "Minister of the word" Andre Malraux ("an elderly uncle whose whims are tolerated with amused indulgence") appears along with plotters, soldiers, relatives and arch-traitor Jacques Soustelle...
Having attained a nearly unprecedented majority in the House of Representatives, the Democratic Party fell heir in January to several additional seats on the House Un-American Activities Committee. And, before HUAC Chairman Edwin E. Willis could spell Plekhanov, Congressman Charles L. Weltner of Atlanta had, without histrionics or controversy, slipped into one of them...
Divorced. Leslie Caron, 33, elfin French film star (The L-Shaped Room, Father Goose); by Peter Hall, 34 director-producer of London's Royal Shakespeare Company, her second husband (her first: Chicago Meat Heir George "Geordie" Hormel II): on uncontested grounds of adultery with Hollywood Actor Warren Beatty, who was ordered to pay court costs: after nine years of marriage, two children; in London...
...Khrushchev, while carefully testing Moscow's changing winds. His real rise began in 1957, when, as a member of the 130-man Communist Central Committee, he shrewdly backed Khrushchev's bid for power, shortly thereafter became one of Nikita's two First Deputy Premiers and heir apparent; his decline started in 1963 when his hard-line anti-Yugoslav attitude brought a swift and angry rebuke from Khrushchev, after which his illness dropped him from the front ranks, and eventually from public view altogether...