Word: heir
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Stand or Fall. Chief gainer in the Cabinet shuffle is dependable, tough-minded Richard Austen Butler, 59, promoted from the Home Ministry to the newly created post of First Secretary of State, becoming, in effect, heir apparent to Macmillan. But the fact that Macmillan has named "Rab" Butler to the No. 2 Cabinet post does not mean necessarily that he will ever obtain No. 1 Since he is now even more closely tied to the Prime Minister and his policies. Butler's political fortunes largely depend on Macmillan's remaining more or less successfully in office. The vacant...
...mortal. For 25 years, the Spanish dictator has stubbornly clung to all the reins of power and refused publicly to designate a successor. Last week, giving way to growing pressure for change and acknowledging his 69 years, Franco did what few dictators have the nerve to do: selected an heir apparent. His choice: tough, crusty Captain General Agustin Munoz Grandes, 66, chief of the Spanish General Staff and an old friend of El Candillo's (see box). Munoz Grandes was named to the newly created post of Vice Premier and delegated to take charge of Spain's government...
...Henry V wins Battle of Agincourt, is later acknowledged heir to French throne...
...Heir to a fortune in shipping and industrial shares (W. R. Grace & Co.), Beaumont discreetly left Eton before he was expelled ("I pinched things," he explains), lazed his way through Oxford as a student of agriculture and founded a club dedicated to reviving the lusty ways of 19th century Regency bucks. Shortly after he came down from Oxford, he decided to become a priest. "I can't explain why," he says. "God seems to call one, but not until one is halfway there does one really realize that...
Married. Jaime Ortiz Patiño, 33, heir to a Bolivian tin fortune; and Nada Takla, 21, a Levantine beauty he met while in Lebanon last summer for a bridge tournament; he for the second time (his first: Manhattan Playgirl Joanne Connelley Sweeny, who died in 1957 while divorce suits were pending); in Geneva...