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...will leave behind a noticeably happy family at Chrysler. Last spring he chose as his successor Robert Eaton, the chief of GM's successful European operations, which rankled some Chrysler insiders at first but has produced a smoothly working triumvirate that includes the former heir apparent, president Robert Lutz. Iacocca sees the upheaval as a positive force. "We do run better scared," he says. "When we have trouble, we're used to that. That has been the beauty of Chrysler for 50 years." While Chrysler still has $15.9 billion in debts rated at junk-bond levels, last month the company...
Adams House heir to the Tom Lauderdale throne.And officer of the boxing club. Teaches gourmetcooking...
Matisse was the heir to an entire, and in his time still viable, tradition of European painting. Conversation is, on one level, an intimate interior -- the painter in his pajamas chatting with Mme. Matisse in her chair. But its hieratic grandeur irresistibly puts you in mind of an Annunciation, with angel (though wingless) and Madonna. In particular Matisse inherited the pastoral mode, replete with allegory. He refers to the poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures...
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark, heir to the oldest throne in Europe and a new visiting student at the College, made his royal entrance to the University community yesterday, discussing everything from his off-campus apartment to his course load during a press conference in Quincy House...
...which outsiders have mockingly dubbed "the world's last socialist theme park." It has had no Khrushchev, not even a Brezhnev, never mind a Gorbachev. It has only its founding dictator, Kim Il Sung, who is 80 and failing. "The Great Leader" has designated his son, "the Dear Leader," heir to the throne. But a succession struggle may already have begun...