Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King who, through the kaleidoscope of moods and situations in which Shakespeare places him, emerges as not just an "ideal" monarch but also as a believable man. Douglas Watson, who plays the title role in the Festival production, gives a performance that is far from flawless. However, he does succeed in making Henry an earnest, changing person, and the play succeeds with...
...Appointments of the week: Novice G. Fawcett, 47, school superintendent of Columbus, Ohio, to succeed Howard Bevis as eighth president of Ohio State University. Eric Walker, 46, vice president of Pennsylvania State University, to succeed Milton S. Eisenhower as the university's twelfth president...
...Call a convention to overhaul the state's cumbersome constitution, a move that Long's critics (while admitting the need for constitutional revision) see as Earl's gambit to change the constitution so that he can succeed himself...
...President Augustus C. Long, 51, was named to succeed Texas Co.'s John Sayles Leach, chairman and chief executive officer, who reaches the mandatory retirement age of 65 in September. Long's successor in the presidency: James W. Foley, 44. Long and Foley, a young top-management team, will captain the third largest U.S. international oil company (behind Standard Oil of N.J. and Gulf in oil reserves and gross income). Chairman-elect Long graduated from Annapolis ('26), joined Texaco after a hitch with the Navy. In World War II he saw Navy duty in London, helped Allied...
Catacombs an Escape. "Communism has come to the conclusion that it will never succeed in destroying religion with brutal force; open persecution will never suppress the faith but only destroy its public and exterior manifestations. The Communists don't want this. They don't want a church in the catacombs which would escape the Communist Party's and government's control. They want a church that may be active, with administration of the sacraments and even large church attendances, but controlled by them through the choice of the priests in charge. The most tragic aspect...