Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guard at Fiat was not quite comfortable with the high-living heir. Early on, too, he suffered a setback. Alfa-Romeo, a rather small, state-owned company that specialized in costlier high-performance cars, made plans for building a southern Italian plant to mass produce medium-priced cars. Agnelli used all his prestige and persuasion to try to block government approval of the Alfa-Romeo expansion, but failed. By 1971, when Alfa-Romeo begins turning out 450,000 cars a year, Fiat will have the novel experience of facing real Italian competition in the medium-priced field...
...political terms, Kennedy's victory was a very personal triumph. Whatever he accomplishes for the party and the Senate, his already lustrous presidential prospects are clearly enhanced. His new power makes him heir to the majority leadership of the Senate and gives him ample justification for maneuver that his previous rank and name could hardly supply...
...majority side and a member of the steering committee, Ted Kennedy will have a major role in formulating policy. Majority Leader Mansfield, a former college professor from Montana, has never been an aggressive legislative leader and, at 65, he has no aspiration for higher elective office. Thus Kennedy, his heir apparent, should have ample opportunity to show his mettle...
...moral abolitionists who, despite their obvious love of the theater, confuse drama with reform and statecraft. They write Plays to Abolish Things By-poverty, prejudice, war, injustice, capitalism, moral obliquity. This is the dramatic form of preventive medicine, and it has never averted a single plague that mankind is heir...
Other executive changes further underscored the policy shift. To succeed Gott as president, the board picked his longtime ally and fellow production specialist, Executive Vice President Edgar B. Speer, 52. Another executive vice president, R. Heath Larry, a lawyer and Blough protege who has long been considered his heir apparent, had to settle for the post of vice chairman. At 54, Larry is still young enough to have a shot at the top job later...