Word: predecessors
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Tremors & Torpedoes. Just what immediate benefit Ceausescu hoped to gain by the letter remained obscure. After all, Soviet troops left Rumania in 1958, at the insistence of "Ceausescu's predecessor, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej. There are still 22 Russian divisions in East Germany; certainly some could be called back, but to withdraw all of them suddenly would probably cause the regime of Walter Ulbricht to collapse. Poland still has three Soviet divisions, but the Russians remain unobtrusive, and Polish Party Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka paranoically fears that a Russian pullback would encourage German encroachment on the Oder-Neisse line. Only Hungary...
Army was the last team to top the Crimson, and they dit it outdoors at West Point two years ago. Bill Straub, the long distance predecessor of sensational Jim Warner, did Harvard in with a double in the mile and two-mile...
Lleras Restrepo, who will take office Aug. 7, faces some enormous problems. Under his do-nothing predecessor, Conservative Guillermo Leon Valencia, Colombia's coffee-based economy has gone steadily downhill, the National Front itself splintered, and Rojas' opposition group in Congress effectively blocked all government legislation. By pushing a "bloodless revolution" of economic and social reforms, Lleras Restrepo hopes to lure some of the opposition to his side and win the two-thirds majority he needs to legislate. Otherwise, he seems prepared to extend the state of siege that Valencia declared last May, and run his country...
...parents (visiting hours, 9-11 a.m.), and lucky to get a brief visit from the doctor once or twice a day. Instead of Old Doc's bedside manner, the modern physician depends on a panoply of new skills, drugs and facilities that save many a patient his predecessor would have lost. The father image has been supplanted by the skilled technician whose head is far more important than his heart. Trouble is, the patient misses the heart...
...Bureau's new chief, Henry L. Giordano, seems more enlightened than his predecessor; nevertheless, a change in official attitudes toward marihuana is unlikely unless serious opposition crystallizes. The Leary case should be noteworthy because Leary's lawyers have announced their intention of disproving the assumptions on which marihuana legislation now rests. They may, in fact, be able to convince the court that getting high on pot once in a while is less harmful to body and mind than boozing it up. Then, perhaps, the control of this interesting drug--and surely there will always be control--may be based upon...