Word: predecessors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sure, he invoked the name and fame of his late predecessor. "All I have," he said quietly, "I would have given gladly not to be standing here today. The greatest leader of our time has been struck down by the foulest deed of our time. Now the ideas and ideals which he so nobly represented must and will be translated into effective action...
...Apart. In fact, despite differences of background, personality and political technique, Johnson and Kennedy were not far apart in their basic policy views, and the 36th President is generally expected to carry out the programs of his predecessor. Some views recently expressed by Johnson with which Kennedy would have concurred...
Texas Talk. An All-America quarterback in 1949 under Bud Wilkinson at Oklahoma, Royal arrived at Texas in 1957 under somewhat harrowing circumstances. The year before, the team lost nine out of ten games, and his predecessor was hanged in effigy three times. But Royal talked a Texas game. "We'll hit," he promised. "We'll find us some guys around here who want to dance every dance. We'll do some bloodletting." And he made good the brags. He scoured the state's 1,000 high schools for rugged, rangy youngsters, drilled them endlessly...
...chief executive of Chicago's Bell & Howell since July, President Peter George Peterson, 37, always finds himself compared with his relentlessly energetic predecessor, Chairman Charles Percy, who is now running for the Republican nomination for Governor of Illinois after having built the movie-equipment maker from $13 million to $148 million in yearly sales. The two men, long tennis-playing pals, are cast in the same mold, but Peterson is if anything a shade more cerebral than his former boss. An advertising expert who has also taught marketing at the University of Chicago, Peterson was a vice president...
Light Brain. One important weight saving is in the General Electric and Raytheon guidance system, the lightest ever devised for a ballistic missile. The computer, which does the missile's thinking in flight, weighs only half as much as its predecessor. But accuracy has not been sacrificed. In spite of covering a greater distance, the A-3 hits its targets more accurately than...