Word: heir
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Brock engineered his victory by presenting himself as everyone's second choice. He was plagued by a loser's image after James Sasser, a former chairman of Tennessee's Democratic Party, took away his Senate seat in November. But the handsome Brock, heir to a candy making fortune, is a good nuts-and-bolts organizer who is conservative enough for Reagan's people though he backed Ford for the presidency last year. He has opposed foreign aid and handgun licensing, but did vote with the liberals against no-knock legislation...
...ready to defend it." After replacing Chamberlain in 1940, Churchill returned Eden to his old post as Foreign Secretary. At the fateful conferences of Yalta and Potsdam, which set the frontiers of postwar Europe, Eden was always at Churchill's elbow -both as a colleague and as his heir apparent...
Sadlowski has the backing of Ralph Nader, Victor Reuther (brother of the late Walter), liberal Economist John Kenneth Galbraith and General Motors Heir Stewart Mott, who gives money to liberal causes. Most established labor chiefs, like George Meany, head of the AFL-CIO, oppose Sadlowski...
...Cuts. The setting for the gathering was a world apart from the now familiar rusticity of Plains: Musgrove Plantation, an 1,800-acre estate on St. Simons Island, just off the Georgia coast. The opulent spread is owned by Smith Bagley, an heir to the Reynolds tobacco fortune and a longtime friend of the President-elect. Carter has been there before, and, as in the past, he observed the political propriety of paying Bagley $300 a day. Most of the entourage stayed at the Cloister Hotel on nearby Sea Island (their bills, like Carter's, were paid from...
...holding the line against the French left--to blocking the chances of France's Socialist-Communist coalition of gaining a parliamentary majority in the next nationwide elections. These former gaullists and their sympathizers dubbed the movement the Assembly for the Republic. At its head they proclaimed a new heir to what one commentator called the French "political strong-man tradition" of Napoleon and deGaulle: a smooth 44-year old operator and former Prime Minister named Jacques Chirac...