Word: inheritence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When (or, as John K. Fairbank said recently, if) Mao dies, Lin Piao will inherit the problems that such an educational system creates. He will control a massive agricultural country that may have crippled its most talented classes. Moreover, Lin is a soldier, who must rely on economic advisors to handle China's industrial and agricultural growth, and Chinese economists have not shown the same imagination in dealing with the economy that Mao has shown with the Party and Lin with the army...
...born Shapp has not been helped by his bray that "I know more about Pennsylvania than any other one man in the state." Neither Governor Scranton, whose family has been prominent in the state for four generations, nor his Lieutenant Governor makes any such claim. Besides, Shafer stands to inherit much of the immense residual popularity of the Scranton administration, one of the most popular and effectual that Pennsylvania has known in decades...
...WRONG BOX. Survival of the fittest-Victorian style-leads members of a genteel British family to mayhem, murder and related shenanigans in an all-out effort to inherit a vast fortune...
...WRONG BOX. Doddering old John Mills attempts mayhem on his doddering old brother, Ralph Richardson, in a hilarious race to see which branch of the family will inherit a large fortune...
...several years the Danes have been wondering whom Daisy would marry. Otherwise known as Princess Margrethe, 26, Daisy will one day inherit the throne of Denmark. Now she has chosen her consort: Count Henri Jean Marie André de Laborde de Monpezat, 32, a French diplomat whom she met in London three years ago. Briefly leaving his post as third secretary of the French embassy in London to meet his future in-laws, the count called on King Frederik IX and Queen Ingrid in Copenhagen, practiced his Danish, and arranged his conversion from Catholicism to the Evangelical Lutheran Church...