Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointment of the week: Quaker Hugh Borton, 53, to succeed Geographer Gilbert White as president of the nation's oldest Quaker college, Haverford. A Haverford graduate ('26), Borton studied at Tokyo Imperial University (now Tokyo University), got his Ph.D. at the State University of Leyden in The Netherlands. From 1942 to 1948, he served in the State Department, rose to be chief of the Division of Northeast Asian Affairs. When Haverford picked him out of 250 candidates, he was professor of Japanese and director of the East Asian Institute at Columbia University...
...yanked Ike's age into the campaign in a manner to take the breath of the most impassioned Nixon critic. Said Adlai in San Diego: Dwight Eisenhower has given up trying to reshape his party, and its "future belongs not to an aging President, who could not succeed himself if re-elected,* but to his young, annointed, ambitious heir, Mr. Nixon...
Said the University of Toronto's President Sidney Smith to his students: "If you choose to work, you will succeed; if you don't, you will fail. If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it. If you join little cliques, you will be self-satisfied; if you make friends widely, you will be interesting. If you gossip, you will be slandered; if you mind your own business, you will be liked. If you act like a boor, you will be despised; if you act like a human being...
...would be all too easy to pass off President Eisenhower's campaign for re-election as a species of "leap-year liberalism" that may succeed in returning the President to the White House, but will surely send the rest of the nation back down the road to the Crystal Palace. Granted, there was justification for fearing such an about-face in 1952, when the General was something of an uninitiated commander crusading for the wrong side. At the head of a party which had spent the previous twenty years blocking every major social advance, he seemed like a quarterback...
AIRCRAFT MERGER will put Northrop Aircraft, Inc. in helicopter business if talks with Pennsylvania's Vertol Aircraft Corp. succeed. Northrop wants to swap two shares of stock for one (542,100 shares outstanding) of Vertol, add Vertol's growing (1955 sales: $58 million) helicopter business to its F89 interceptor and Snark guided-missile production...