Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Manning, born in Ireland, is a traditionalist who insists on the need for ecclesiastical authority. But he wields it much more gently than his predecessor, James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre. Manning has cooled off the disputatious Los Angeles archdiocese by visiting widely among its parishes, supporting its large Mexican-American community and listening patiently to suggestions from his priests...
...while, it seemed that the bugles might blow forever. Tanaka wrapped up two major foreign policy missions that had eluded his cautious predecessor, Eisaku Sato: a reasonably successful meeting of the minds with Richard Nixon on U.S.-Japanese economic matters in Hawaii, and a historic summit with Chou En-lai in Peking. Tanaka was all over the headlines, the TV tube and even the bestseller lists -with an imaginative-sounding but ghostwritten book entitled A Plan for Remodeling the Japanese Archipelago, which offered some slick, idyllic proposals for controlling the country's urban sprawl...
...their brain-puzzling jobs. But they are the men with guts enough to try. If they succeed in then chosen work they become heroes; if they fan they are forgotten overnight. But at least they have done their very best. By the way, just who was LIOYC. Jordan's predecessor? In order to find out if it pays to belong to the College Daily we must read between the lines. Another arduous task...
...position charges that the "principal fortune" of the Internal Security Committee and its predecessor, the House Committee on Un-American Activities. "hat been to probe and expose the beliefs, opinions and associations of American citizens...
Moving. He has appointed his McGovernite predecessor, Jean Westwood, to the Charter Commission, which has the job of setting up a mid-term party convention in 1974. George Meany, one of Strauss's principal backers, is unhappy with United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock because he supported McGovern. But Strauss will keep Woodcock as chairman of the Commission on Delegate Selection...