Word: predecessors
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...fully test his vaunted administrative skills. A combination of shrewdness and steadfastness under fire is expected to pull him through. He sees eye to eye with Henry Kissinger and is not likely to offer any rebuffs on foreign policy. While he lacks the clubby relations with Congress that his predecessor Melvin Laird enjoyed, he has more of an appetite for overall strategy and administrative detail. Balancing the relatively liberal Richardson at Defense-and no doubt adding to his troubles-will be a new Deputy Secretary, William P. Clements, an outspoken Texas oil millionaire who vociferously opposes defense cuts...
Holding Fire. Domestically, Peterson has performed the Commerce Secretary's job as liaison man between business and Government with much more sensitivity to modern trends than his predecessor, Maurice Stans, who later became Nixon's campaign treasurer. Indeed, the 46-year-old Peterson, who dresses in dark suits augmented by flashy ties, square-toed shoes and gold-rimmed glasses, seems more than just one generation more mod than the 64-year-old Stans. Stans took the business side in almost every dispute; among other things, he decried tough anti-pollution regulations and defended the clubbing of Alaskan seals...
TALLULAH by Brendan Gill. 287 pages. Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $25. This is the second in an informal series of lavish productions about great names in show business. It suffers badly in comparison with Cole, its predecessor, which among other things re-created the all-out sheer pizazz of the '30s. Porter was a genius, Bankhead a personality. Cole's lyrics enriched the previous book incalculably; in this volume Critic Brendan Gill, who treats her life with proper studied indulgence, confesses that most of Tallulah's talk worth repeating is unprintable...
...Smith, Allott, Miller and others were retired, the Republicans suffered a net loss of two seats, and the new line-up of 57 to 43 will give the President an upper chamber somewhat more liberal?and potentially more hostile ?than its predecessor. It will also contain a goodly number of new faces (see following story...
...rumor continually circulating in the cylinder that there is a way out, either through a tunnel in the wall or through a trap door in the unreachable ceiling, and by the memory that once man had seen stars shine. But the Inferno in the closet thing to a predecessor ones wander endlessly in a circle, pausing only to climb one of the ladders leading to niches high in the walls, or to join the numbers of the "non-searchers," the "sedentary," or the "vanquished." These are slumped against the walls in the position of Beckett's favorite figure from...