Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Curriculum Reform. "Curriculum Reform is a dead issue but Roger isn't yet," May is reported to have said around the pool at the Belmont Community Center. Shown above is Professor JAMES Q. WILSON, demonstrating the swan dive he has perfected while on sabbatical, as Dean MAY and his predecessor FRED GLIMP, now a member of the Belmont School Board, discuss ways of revitalizing Harvard College...
...proposing these reforms, Gierek also launched a harsh, albeit indirect attack on his predecessor for losing touch with the people. The pre-Christmas price increases, ordered into effect with little explanation, had been "an ill-considered concept of economic policy." The new leadership, said Gierek pointedly, "will respect the principle of collective decision making and democracy in the life of the party...
...Wrong Issue. Temporarily, at least, the discomfited public has rallied behind Heath and his hard line against the E.T.U. The Prime Minister can take less comfort, however, from the latest Harris poll; it shows that his Labor predecessor, Harold Wilson, has increased his lead in personal popularity over Heath by 51% to 37%. The poll also indicated that the Labor Party has now surged ahead of the Tories in public popularity, 48% to 45%. Once the electrical showdown is settled, moreover, many Britons may turn against Heath and the Tories for having allowed the blackout to continue so long...
...expectations of alumni donations were not met, and the dean of the Faculty renewed the $20,000 subsidy for 1968-69 and 1969-70. In April, 1969, Dean Ford, Dunlop's predecessor, stated that he would reduce the subsidy by increments of $5000, starting in 1970-71, and would eliminate the grant after June...
...century." Yet neither the personas nor the performance of Robert William Haack seemed grandiose-until last week. Quiet spoken, looking younger than his 53 years, sometimes awed by the satraps of the Street, Haack had come across as more the manager and conciliator than the innovative leader. Unlike his predecessor, G. Keith Funston, who served the exchange as a supersalesman, Haack seemed like central casting's response to a call for a small-town doctor...