Word: inheritence
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...gradually welded together much of the old steel dynasty. From her Bavarian castle, Frau Thyssen today controls 52% of Phoenix stock and 12% of August Thyssen stock; her daughter, Countess Anita de Zichy-Thyssen of Buenos Aires, holds another 39% of Thyssen stock. The countess thus would presumably inherit a majority share of both...
Ismail Y. Yusupov, 48, knew that he had a tough row to hoe when he was named Communist Party boss in the problem-plagued virgin lands of Kazahkstan (TIME, Jan. 4). But he could hardly have guessed the extent of the mess he would inherit from his purged predecessor. Last week Yusupov published a report charging that more than $600 million had been wasted during the last three years on ill-conceived projects; no fewer than 16,139 regional officials were fired last year alone, 2,340 of them for stealing and embezzling $1,270,000. A gang of crooks...
...been read without misgiving by a Christian of the period, and certainly some of the themes appear in other works which have never been considered anything but orthodox." For example, Philip paraphrases St. John's Gospel on the importance of the Eucharist: "But what is this which will inherit? That which belongs to Jesus with his blood. Because of this he said 'he who shall not eat my flesh and drink my blood has no life in him.' He who has received these has food and drink and clothing...
Wilson's 144-103 victory was a crushing blow to his chief rival, comradely George Brown, 48, a staunch trade unionist and ex-truck driver, who as acting party leader since the death last month of Hugh Gaitskell, had every reason to believe that he would inherit the mantle of leadership. But when the voting began last week, it was George Brown's old friends among Labor's trade unionists who abandoned him first. Some opposed his pro-Common Market views; others among Labor's intellectual center and right flinched at the thought of a working...
...spring, Fritz Reiner, 74, built the Chicago into one of the best-disciplined orchestras in the world. Chicago's new man, who will arrive next season, is Jean Martinon, 53, a composer and conductor and presently the General Music Director in Düsseldorf. Martinon, a Frenchman, will inherit the most Germanic orchestra outside Germany...