Word: heir
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...ultimate successor. After Sanjay was killed in an air crash in 1980, she turned to her elder son Rajiv, 31, a former commercial airline pilot. So far, Rajiv has shown little flair for politics, but never mind that. He is Indira Gandhi's surviving son and thus the heir apparent to the House of Nehru, whose street address for most of the past 35 years has been 1 Safdarjang Road, New Delhi, the Prime Minister's residence...
Most of the ground being set aside for the new settlements was public land, known as Sultan's property in the days of the Ottoman Empire. After 1967 the Israeli government simply declared itself the heir of the Turkish Sultan and proclaimed itself the owner of all such land. Inevitably, as the Israeli population grows, Israel will extend to the new settlements and the new settlers the full protection of Israeli law. As a result, the West Bank need never be formally annexed by Israel. Indeed, as Begin has put it, "you don't annex your own homeland...
...Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, seven years ago. He ruled that she had "continuously engaged in adultery and other gross marital misconduct." Indeed, testimony indicated that she had slept with a Palm Beach real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver and Jacquie Kimberly, beautiful wife of Kleenex Heir James Kimberly. The judge felt sorry for Pulitzer, he wrote, when he saw "the embarrassment, painful hurt and frustrating concern exuding from his doleful eyes and aging face." At the same time, "the wife nonchalantly sat at the table doodling on a note pad as though unconcerned." Later...
Admitting that "I wasn't really qualified anyway," New York Senator Allophones D'Amato resigns his seat. In a special election for the vacant spot, former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali defeats Republican drugstore heir Lewis Lehrman handily. Ali runs on the slogan: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee/ Lehrman got whapped once before, now I'll put him down in three...
...Western democracies. But the P.R.I, is an institution: since its organization in 1929, it has not lost a single presidential election. The President, the most influential man in the party, rules Mexico like a virtual monarch for six years. Then, after consulting with a few powerbrokers, he designates his heir. In a blitzkrieg campaign, the successor is paraded before the voters, who give him an overwhelming victory. Says a Western diplomat in Mexico City: "The only comparable party in the world is the Soviet Communist Party...