Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them, found partially clothed in a shallow grave, with a bullet wound in the chest and another in the head, was almost certainly Kate Webb's. She had become U.P.I.'s bureau manager in Phnom-Penh last February, at the age of 28, after her predecessor, Frank Frosch, was gunned down along with Pulitzer-prizewinning Photographer Kyoichi Sawada in a Viet Cong ambush. Webb is the tenth journalist known to have died in Cambodia since the war spilled across its borders last spring; 19 others are listed as missing. In one year, Cambodia has accounted for more than...
...believe in doing things on a crash basis," he says. "We evolve continuously and deliberately." Yet as a board chairman who began his career as a cellophane-machine operator (albeit one whose father was a Du Pont vice president), McCoy may well be a bit more daring than his predecessor and step up the pace of evolution...
...first glance, and even at second, The Mephisto Waltz looks a lot like Rosemary's Granddaughter. There are the ambitious husband, beleaguered wife, treacherous new acquaintances, sympathetic old friends, intimations of perversion and, finally, the confirmation of diabolism. Yet for all the obvious echoes of its superior predecessor, Waltz stands on its own as a sleek and scary piece of movie necromancy...
Three years after the last appearance of its predecessor, the Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs, the Harvard Journal of Afroamerican Affairs has begun publication with a Spring issue entitled "The Black Press...
...Allende felt had opposed him in last year's campaign, will soon be replaced by Nathaniel Davis, 46, a cool-headed career man currently serving as U.S. Ambassador to Guatemala. Though delicate, Davis' new assignment hardly compares with his last one. He went to Guatemala after his predecessor, John Gordon Mein, was gunned down by terrorist killers in the streets of Guatemala City...