Word: heir
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...Mayor Dietrich Stobbe last January. To halt the decline of the S.P.D. in its onetime bastion, Schmidt had sent his federal justice minister, Hans-Jochen Vogel, 55, to take over as mayor and prepare for new elections. A popular former mayor of Munich widely regarded as Schmidt's heir apparent, Vogel made an impressive effort. He stopped officials from forcibly evicting squatters and stumped the city, pumping hands, urging restraint, promising reform. A pre-election poll put his personal popularity rating eight points ahead of his opponent, silver-haired Richard von Weizsäcker, 61, the competent but colorless...
...Content the King in the matter of marriage," the petition pleads, "in order to avoid the ills that may befall the church if his will is contested." The petitioners were right. King Henry VIII of England had fallen in love with Anne Boleyn and wanted a son and heir by her. He was determined to put aside his wife, Catherine of Aragon. But when Catherine appealed to Pope Clement VII, the Pope ordered Henry to halt his annulment proceedings. Henry, as the 75 bishops and courtiers warned in their petition to Rome, would not allow his will to be contested...
...letter written in 1246 by Genghis Khan's grandson and heir, the Grand Khan Kuyuk, grandiosely inviting Pope Innocent IV and "the kings of the West" to a summit conference at Karakorum...
BORN. To Patricia Hearst Shaw, 29, heir to the Hearst publishing empire and former Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive; and her husband Bernard Shaw, 35, the San Francisco policeman who served as her bodyguard after her arrest in 1975 and during her subsequent trial for bank robbery that led to a 23-month prison term; a daughter, their first child; in Palo Alto, Calif. Name: Gillian Catherine Hearst-Shaw. Weight...
...Prince's education was a little more rigorous. He was the first heir to the throne ever to go to school outside the palace. At the urging of his father, he was sent, like other boys of his social class, to boarding schools, first Cheam in Berkshire, then Gordonstoun in Scotland. Gordonstoun was a fairly tough place-cold showers in the morning, long runs in the often inclement weather before class-and Charles, despite a deficiency in mathematics shared with his future bride, did well. He went on to earn a degree in archaeology and anthropology at Trinity College...