Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wedged in between Guisseppe Gelato and the Coffee Connection, celebrates its first birthday this month. Perhaps the location itself is a jinx: replacing a short-lived flavored popcorn emporium, Top Dog seldom appears to attract lines of customers any longer than the phantom queues of its defunct predecessor. Featuring hot dogs with a variety of toppings, chili dogs, and freshly baked french fries, the hot dog king caters to a mixed crowd, according to Estelle, the owner...
According to Fish, he and his predecessor, Jack Martin, coach of the Harvard men's team for 44 years (1930-1974), had considered the idea of an international squash program for many years. They both sought to use squash as "a vehicle to promote international exchange by having a one month tour of top world junior players throughout the United States and Canada... to use athletics as a tool of understanding and growth...
...three months in office, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze has charmed the diplomatic world with his openness and self-effacing wit. His kindly eyes and unruly silver mane project an image that is radically different from that of his fastidious, poker-faced predecessor, Andrei Gromyko. But like his boss, Mikhail Gorbachev, Shevardnadze is a shrewd, tough-minded politician with steel beneath his smile. Some Sovietologists last summer assumed that Shevardnadze, with his minimal foreign policy experience, would serve simply as a stand-in while Gorbachev acted as his own chief diplomat. Yet Shevardnadze has shown a readiness to take charge...
...Housing: Although he will chair the Committee on House Life, Jewett will not likely have his hands full with housing issues this fall. His predecessor, John B. Fox Jr. '59, made a host of reforms in residential policy last spring, including spreading the burden of over-crowding more evenly throughout the 12 houses, making it easier for transfer students to live on campus, and reviewing the house lottery system...
Presser's immediate predecessor as Teamsters leader, Roy L. Williams, has not been as successful in eluding prosecution. Williams, who served as president of the union from 1981 to 1983, was convicted three years ago of attempting to bribe former Nevada Senator Howard Cannon in 1979 in return for the politician's help in opposing a trucking deregulation bill. Washington sources say that Presser was the Teamsters informant who first tipped the FBI to Williams' bribe offer. Last week Williams, 70, had his original prison sentence of 55 years reduced to ten years. He had pleaded for leniency because...