Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year's end to take over bigger (340,000 students) State University of New York; successor must build up small ($ 12 million) endowment, raise money to establish new law and dentistry schools and attract more renowned senior faculty. Political acumen helpful in dealing with elected trustees. Salary negotiable; predecessor went from $47,500 to $65,000. Charming but small home in center of warm, friendly campus; car with driver. Apply Michigan State...
...Ansley came in to lead the team to a 44-14 win), Texas last week remained atop the college polls with the only undefeated record among the football powers. The No. 1 ranking has enabled Coach Fred Akers to emerge early from the long shadow of his legendary predecessor, Darrell Royal. It has also vindicated members of the university athletic commission who disregarded a Royal choice and picked Akers instead. Actually, they had good reason for their decision. Akers had prepped as a Royal assistant before moving into the head coaching job at Wyoming in 1975. In two years...
...Soviet Union, the T-72 has a 115-mm. gun with an infra-red and laser range-finding system for accurate fire through fog or at night. Because the gun is loaded automatically, the tank requires a crew of only three; crews of four are required by its predecessor, the 37½-ton T-62, as well as by the tanks of NATO nations, including the 58-ton American M60. Top speed of the T-72 is 43 m.p.h. on level ground. Some Western armor experts fear the T-72 may be able to outperform laser-equipped tanks, such...
...clear that the backs and forwards did not work together in bringing the ball up the field and the team (4-4-4) has not notched a win in their last six games. One can only hope that the "Ghost of Harvard Soccer Teams Present" will replace his predecessor by Saturday's game with Penn. New England Soccer Poll W-L-T 1. Brown 7-4-1 2. Vermont 11-2-1 3. Rhode Island 7-3-1 4. Boston University 9-5-2 5. UMass 7-4-0 6. Dartmouth 6-4-1 7. HARVARD...
...wall in Cliff Saunders' office at the BIC is a poem. It is written right on the wall, along with other poems by the same artist. The poet is Will Basque, Cliff's predecessor as executive director of BIC, who now works at the Massachusetts Bureau of Indian Affairs. It reads...