Word: succeeded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What mattered most was the departure of George Wallace, who could not legally succeed himself as Governor and decided not to run for the Senate. With his control removed from state politics after the mesmerizing years, the rules had suddenly changed...
...race until the end. As the 172-member party caucus proceeded through two rounds of secret balloting, tension mounted in the crowd gathered outside Capetown's white-columned senate building. Finally the doors opened: Defense Minister Pieter W. ("P.W.") Botha, 62, an uncompromising hardliner, had been chosen to succeed retiring Prime Minister John Vorster...
...three leaders at Camp David [Sept. 11] could possibly succeed in evolving some method that would eventually result in a genuine peace between Israel and its neighbors, they would deserve our gratitude forever...
...should a new monthly LIFE succeed less than half a dozen years after the old weekly stumbled? For one thing, network television ? which did much to kill general-interest mass-circulation magazines such as LIFE, Look and the Saturday Evening Post?has become far more expensive. A 30-second spot on Charlie's Angels costs $95,000, and a minute of next January's Super Bowl is going for $370,000. Even at those prices, desirable prime-time shows are solidly booked, with no more commercial time left for new sponsors. As a result, more and more advertisers...
...intriguing question will be whether Pfeiffer's marriage will become a duet of corporate chiefs. Her husband, Ralph, 51, senior vice president and chief executive in charge of IBM's operations in the Far East and Latin America, is one of several high executives considered candidates to succeed Chairman Frank Cary some...