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...Charles "Chuck" Whitmore IV, Eliot House For fourth-generation Haravardian M. Chuck, being heir to an ancestral fortune isn't as easy as it sounds. Explains the Owl Club president, "Apart from all the genetic deficiencies caused by inbreeding, the Whitmore family has suffered terribly from the liberation of the serfs...
...through Peking's Great Hall of the People last week as the solemn figure in the gray business suit nervously took a seat at the podium. The surprise arrival was none other than the recently disgraced Hu Yaobang, 71, who was purged in January as Communist Party chief and heir apparent to Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. Hu's unexpected reappearance at the annual National People's Congress, China's largest policymaking body, marked the latest twist in the protracted power struggle that has shaken the country in recent months and threatened Deng's sweeping economic reforms. Said...
...history, all potential. Today America, the oldest continuous political system in the world, has a full page of history and heavy debts to pay. The campaign of 1988 could be one of the more interesting and important in recent history. There is no incumbent; neither party has an obvious heir apparent. The nation will perform the very American act of reimagining itself...
...poor but prestigious family. Having recently had a heart attack, Sir Robert is more dead than alive, surviving only with the aid of various life-support machines. Lady Charles has decided to put him out of his misery and pull the plug--much to the pleasure of heir apparent Hugo and his twin sister, Annabel. Planning ahead, the family has placed him in a coffin right in the middle of the Charles estate drawing room. The youngest son Nigel arrives from Oxford as does the dim-witted nanny Kitty, and the "switching off ceremony" ready to begin...
...Joseph O'Donnell was one of Madison Avenue's golden boys. During his ten years at the agency, he had raced ever upward through the ranks. At the start of the year O'Donnell at 44 had defeated several rivals to become the chief at Thompson and the heir apparent to Don Johnston, the 59-year-old chairman of the J.W.T. Group, the holding company (estimated 1986 sales: $650 million) that owns the ad agency. Further triumphs seemed assured...