Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gierek is about to receive a decisive report card. When the party's 91-man Central Committee assembles, perhaps as early as this week, Gierek must persuade its members to support his plans for economic and political reforms. Since most members owe their jobs to Gierek's predecessor, the ousted Wladyslaw Gomulka, this may prove to be quite a challenge...
Under Charles de "Gaulle, the press conference was something of an art form, with questions submitted in advance and answers carefully wrought and as carefully rehearsed. Georges Pompidou is no match for his predecessor when it comes to turning a phrase, but he has proved quite a whiz at rummaging through his mind and producing an apt quotation or literary reference. The result may not be original literature, but it is nonetheless a rich anthology. At his most recent press conference Pompidou, a former teacher, editor of a collection of French poetry and longtime literary raconteur, casually served...
Each installment has seemed more amusing and airy but at the same time less real and telling than its predecessor. Desperation gave way to melancholy, which in turn yielded to benign human comedy. The wit, charm and felicity characteristic of Truffaut are abundant in Bed and Board. But now the ingredients are a little too predictable, and perhaps a little forced as well. There is much fun, but a scarcity of energy and insight...
...classic promises of segregation forever, of a last stand at the schoolhouse door. Six newly sworn Deep South Governors have been taking a startlingly calmer line since the new year began. Most striking example: the inauguration of Georgia's Jimmy Carter, who stepped in front of his predecessor, Lester Maddox, and an audience of 5,000 to declare: "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over." Throughout the South, there has been a note of acceptance, of moving on to the problems long neglected while race dominated the sectional debate...
Ancient Highlands. Apollo 14, scheduled to lift off on Sunday, Jan. 31, at 3:23 p.m. E.S.T., will head for the same hilly region near the crater Fra Mauro that was the target of its ill-fated predecessor. If all goes well, the Apollo 14 astronauts will become the first human visitors to the lunar highlands. There they may be able to recover rocks dating back to the birth of the moon, more than 4.5 billion years ago. The lunar landing maneuvers will differ in important details from the two previous successful manned lunar expeditions. For one thing, the command...