Word: heirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right," said Henry W. Gadsden, one of the several outside directors who hoped that the president could stay on. Both Ford and lacocca can be at times charming, abrasive, cordial and arch. A clash of their personalities was all but inevitable from the moment that Ford, the celebrated heir who liked to remind subordinates that "my name is on the building," elevated lacocca, the ambitious hired manager, to president in 1970. Early rumored to have the inside track on the job of chief executive upon Ford's retirement at the age of 65 in 1982, lacocca made the mistake...
Investing a billion is a tiresome chore, even for a high-living heir who has spent fortunes on blondes (he has married and divorced two of them), villas, Alpine ski resorts and hunting retreats. He also owns a 124-ft. yacht and a Grumman Gulfstream jet, which whisk him to his favorite playgrounds at the Lyford Cay Club in the Bahamas, the ski slopes at Snowbird, Utah, and the big-game preserves of Kenya and Alaska...
...most vocal proponents of the White House concessions was Idaho Senator Frank Church, heir apparent to Sparkman as Foreign Relations Committee chairman. Carter aides said last week that Church personally made a commitment to deliver the necessary votes; Church insisted that he had promised only to press his colleagues for fair and open-minded consideration of the Administration proposals. At any rate, Church persuaded John Glenn of Ohio to back the sales. On the Republican side, lobbying help came from none other than Gerald Ford, who persuaded Michigan's Robert Griffin to fall into line...
...could be quite a while before any of the younger princes would be considered as a potential heir to the throne. Family custom has been that Kings are chosen from the sons of Abdul Aziz. Since Khalid has at least 28 living younger brothers, the next generation will have to wait its turn for power...
Prince Charles has spoken blithely of serving a "30year apprenticeship" for the monarchy. It is a prospect to daunt a young, energetic royal heir, and once it did: Queen Victoria's son was a frustrated debauchee by the time he ascended the throne as King Edward VII at the age of 59. Windsor watchers insist that abdication in favor of her son is out of the question for Elizabeth, barring, of course, incapacitating illness. But the Queen is doing her best to see that Charles' long apprenticeship will be a useful one, and so is Charles, who has sat down...