Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knock, who exchanges his practice in Lyons for that of Dr. Parpalaid in the village of St. Maurice, quickly finds that not only are his patients virtually non-existent, but also that the few he possesses have already paid their bills (which they do annually) to his predecessor. By a series of "free" consultations and by engaging the support of influential citizens, however, Knock buffaloes the rural characters with a bewildering description of their maladies. No one escapes the cryptic medical language and anatomical charts which the doctor employs to convince the strapping citizens of their multiple ills...
...quiet, businesslike politico who seldom invites comparison with his rambunctious predecessor James Michael Curley, Boston's Mayor John Hynes visited Italy last week on a good-will mission from his Italian-American constituents to the all-Italian citizens of Rome, and managed to kick up a fuss that out-curled Curley at his bushy-tailed best. Gallivanting about Rome with 60 other rubbernecking Bostonians, Democrat Hynes got himself photographed with a nestful of Neo-Fascists, was front-paged by happy Communists and indignant Conservative dailies alike. Some newspaper reports alleged that Hynes had visited the Neo-Fascist headquarters...
...Unknown Man. On closer examination it was seen that the crafty Nikita had struck out 25 key industrial ministries in favor of control at regional levels, where his party hacks are strongest. Among those presumably to be abolished was the ministry of Khrushchev's predecessor and rival, the Ministry of Electric Power Stations, run by Georgy Malenkov, who set up and top-managed the Soviet industrial might in World War II and presumably speaks for the technocrat class...
John Jay Hopkins, a handsome, debonair son of a Presbyterian minister, provided the push and brilliance that built General Dynamics Corp. (1956 sales: $1 billion) into one of the postwar era's biggest industrial combines. A lawyer, California-born John Hopkins joined Electric Boat, predecessor of General Dynamics, as a director in 1937, engineered the acquisition of Canadair Ltd., a Canadian aircraft manufacturing company, and then took over major corporations-manufacturing everything from telephone equipment to airplanes-until he had made the new complex the seventh largest defense contractor to the U.S. Government...
Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss has never been quite frank about his plans for West Germany's defense contribution to NATO. His predecessor, Theodor Blank, promised to field twelve German divisions and 500,000 men by 1960, and commit all of them to NATO. But when Strauss took office last year, he began revising Blank's program and scaling down manpower targets. Last week, in an interview with the military analyst of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung...