Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...president, quiet, methodical Warren W. Lebeck, 52, an officer of the C.B.T. for the past 19 years. Lebeck was picked by the board of directors after a divisive five-month manhunt. He is a compromise candidate, who lacks the charisma and political clout of his $110,000-a-year predecessor, Henry Hall Wilson, a well-connected Democrat who returned home to North Carolina last June to challenge Sam Ervin for his Senate seat in 1974. But Lebeck may be the perfect...
Sadat has been forced to shake a fist from time to time or seduce Egyptians with the heady vision of confrontation and victory because he lacks the personal magnetism with which his predecessor, Abdel Nasser, captured the Arab world. Sadat is basically an uncomplicated person who enjoys a sedate family life with wife Gehan and their children. He is a devout Moslem to the point that his forehead bears the mark caused by a lifetime of touching the head to floor to pray...
Bishop Allin is not exactly a right-winger, although he is known to be critical of several of his predecessor's policies. Allin is a Southern white, born in Arkansas, who earned his divinity degree at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tenn. His record as Bishop of Mississippi includes the rebuilding of burned-out black churches in the state, but Allin's Deep South background alienated militant blacks and Northern white liberals at the convention...
Maria ("Isabelita") Martinez de Perón, 42, has obviously learned more steps than did her predecessor. Evita's hopes of becoming Vice President in 1951 were dashed by a determinedly male-chauvinist military. This time round, with an overwhelming election victory for both Peróns, no such opposition is anticipated. Barring the total collapse of order in Argentina, Isabelita will become her country's first female Vice President on inauguration...
Pittsburgh, another erratic team that has moved between last and first place this season, found its second wind after firing Manager Bill Virdon on Sept. 6 and replacing him with his predecessor, Danny Murtaugh. The club that will have survived the final, crucial weekend will go into the play-offs against Cincinnati with the kind of odds-defying momentum that swept the Mets to a surprise World Series victory...