Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...once aspired to a career in the theater, he was a mill clerk when he attracted the attention of the union's founding president, Philip Murray, with his organizational talents. Murray selected McDonald as secretary-treasurer of the union in 1942, made it clear that McDonald was his heir apparent. When Murray died in 1952, McDonald stepped almost automatically into the presidency...
...became one of the foremost exponents of Japan's increased international involvement. Although his rival for the premiership, Ichiro Kono, won worldwide acclaim as the top organizer most responsible for the success of the Tokyo Olympics, Sato really had the inside track. He has been Ikeda's heir apparent for more than four years-ever since his elder brother, Nobusuke Kishi,* resigned in the wave of leftist riots that forced the cancellation of President Eisenhower's projected visit...
...absorbed USA1 (an illustrated monthly newsmagazine) and Show Business Illustrated (a rival put out by Playboy Publisher Hugh Hefner), expanded its formula to encompass culture in general, from travel to politics, and in the process grandly lost $8,000,000. Since Show's publisher is A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, the red ink was not too significant. But with circulation at 200,000 and still shy of the break-even point, Hartford last week decided to hand over Show to Playbill, Inc. for a price that involved no "appreciable" amount of money...
Richard Nixon would obviously like to be the heir. After last week's defeat, he called for a calm reappraisal and criticized those who had withheld full support from the national ticket, in particular Governor Rockefeller ("A spoilsport, a party-divider"). During the campaign, Nixon stumped the whole country, recementing his ties with local politicians and boosting their morale in the face of generally poor leadership from the national committee...
Married. Peter Stanley Firestone, 24, third-generation heir to the Firestone rubber fortune, son of Roger, youngest of the four brothers who head the country's 32nd biggest corporation; and Julie Nelson, 23, Scottsdale, Ariz., socialite; in Riverfalls...