Word: heir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interrupted the general hush: "The Queen has asked me to let you know that an announcement is being made this morning." What followed produced a gasp, applause and even more jubilant beaming from the Queen. Champagne corks began to pop around the palace. At long last, Prince Charles, 32, heir to the British throne, was to be married. His betrothed: Lady Diana Spencer, 19, a blushing beauty with an impressive pedigree and an impeccable reputation...
...Prince has been searching for in a wife-tall (5 ft. 9 in., 2 in. shorter than he), slim and long-legged-the type he has said he favors. She is also British, another preferred attribute and one that will make her the first citizen to marry the heir to the throne since 1659.* Like the Prince, she is an athlete: an avid bicyclist, swimmer and skier, although she does not share the royal family's passion for horses. Says she: "I fell off a horse and lost my nerve...
Spaniards did not always have such confidence in Juan Carlos, a direct descendant of the Bourbon King Louis XIV and Queen Victoria. Once described as "the son Franco never had," Juan Carlos had been hand-picked by the Generalissimo as his heir for a modern Spain. With foresight Franco had instructed the future King that "you will have to manage in another way than I do." Yet, despite a reputation for libertarian ideals, Juan Carlos raised few expectations when he became King at age 37, two days after Franco's death. Indeed, political wags cynically dubbed the shy Commander...
...board itself had been split since last summer over what to do about a successor for Griffiths. His messy firing in June 1980 of his own heir apparent, Maurice Valente, who had been brought into the company only six months earlier from a top job at ITT, had angered several outside directors. Their dismay merely intensified when Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, chairman of NBC, RCA's network subsidiary, was let go in even clumsier fashion a few weeks later...
...recently left a $250,000-a-year job as a senior vice president at Exxon. The 6-ft. 3½-in. onetime University of Texas football player is the son of a former chairman of Humble Oil & Refining, one of Exxon's predecessor companies, and the heir to the 30,000-acre Thomson Ranch near San Antonio. Having reportedly been passed over for the presidency of Exxon, Barrow was on his way back home to manage his ranch when Kennecott snared him with a Texas-size contract. Barrow's salary, bonus and incentive payments in 1979 totaled about...