Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mario Savio's--that Savio's "managerial tyranny" with little interest in truth or anything else worth respecting was trying to manage their lives, and generally succeeding. SDS, continuing its block-by-block organizing around local issues in Roxbury and North Harvard but increasingly returning to its predecessor Tocsin's roots in antiwar organizing, doubled its 100 members in the fall...
Last December, Walter Stoessel, 54, formerly Ambassador to Warsaw, was named Ambassador to Moscow. Secretary Kissinger is not permitted to do to Stoessel what Presidential Adviser Kissinger did to Stoessel's predecessor, Jacob Beam: in 1972, while he was negotiating detente with the Kremlin, Kissinger sneaked into Moscow without even telling Beam that he was coming...
...would you compare your regime with that of your predecessor, Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...their own identity and to cultivate and develop their spiritual heritage within a sociopolitical system that recognizes their liberty to do so." In the context of Spanish politics, those were daring words indeed. Madrid vividly remembers that Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco, Franco's closest colleague and Arias' predecessor as Premier, was killed by Basque bomber-terrorists as he emerged from daily Mass. But Añoveros went on to regret that "sometimes people, or to say it better, their ruling classes, can succumb to the temptation of sacrificing the characteristics and special values of their own country...
Freshman Jerry Colker, who recently paid his own way to the Ivy gymnastics championships at Dartmouth, succeeded Rizzo as coach. But he is faced with the same financial problems as his predecessor...