Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that about the only real mistake a politician can make is failing to report his bribes on his federal income tax return. Last week Democratic Mayor George Chacharis, 54, pleaded guilty to doing just that-on a take of $226,686. He should have learned a lesson from his predecessor, Peter Mandich, who was set free. Mandich "received large amounts of graft payments." said a U.S. attorney in court, ''but the evidence does not show that he failed to report the payments as income on tax returns...
During Thant's year in office he has managed to keep both sides happy most of the time. He brought more Russians into the Secretariat, began conferring regularly with his Soviet Under Secretary, whom his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, had deliberately ignored. But when Russia failed to ante up for the Congo operation, Thant deplored the fact, to the satisfaction...
...appraisal of a confusing multiplicity of proposed academic reforms (teaching machines, language labs, "new math"); yet the Office of Education's research program is too small to be of much use. The Office has less influence in Congress, for example, than the National Education Association. Keppel's predecessor, Sterling McMurrin, pointed out after quitting this fall that an N.E.A. blizzard of telegrams to all Congressmen was what scuttled the college-aid bill he supported...
...taking the thankless job of running Britain's rattling railways, genial but tough Richard Beeching raised a public storm last year by insisting that the government match the salary that he got as technical director of Imperial Chemical Industries: $67,000. That was 2½ times what his predecessor got and much higher than the Prime Minister's pay ($28,000), but Beeching's principles opposed a comedown. Beeching, now 49, may be worth much more than that to the railways, which ran a crashing $252 million in the red last year...
...beat hotel," a fleabag shrine in a section of Paris where passers-by move out of the way for rats. There in a worn grey room the worn grey man has written three other novels. The Soft Machine, the immediate sequel to Naked Lunch, repeats the rant of its predecessor with far less coherence; the improvement may be explained by Burroughs' solemn assurance that much of his writing is dictation from Hasan-i-Sabbah. founder of the eleventh century hashish-eating Ismaili cult, the Assassins. The two most recent books, Novia Express and The Ticket That Exploded, come daringly...