Word: succeeders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Nixon appoints Claire Booth Luce to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. A committee of Harvard dignitaries attends the dedication of Mather House which crumbles to the ground when Nathan Pusey strikes it squarely with a champagne bottle. The bottle remains intact...
...after Khrushchev and Kennedy concluded the test-ban treaty, the long and delicate approach to a Soviet-American detente was reversed by Moscow's heavy-handed repression of a progressive regime in Czechoslovakia. For a few months it seemed as if Alexander Dubcek, the Czechoslovak party boss, might succeed in his breathtaking attempt to defy Moscow and build a humane, relatively liberal and more efficient Marxist regime in his country; the Soviet tanks that ended this attempt for the time being did not end the hopes he had expressed. But Moscow may have made eventual solutions more painful...
That is Western man, and with these qualities he will succeed or fail. It is possible to look at the moon flight and shudder at the vast, impersonal, computerized army of interchangeable technicians who brought it about. It is also possible to see in this endeavor the crucial gifts for organization and cooperation that alone will make survival in the post-industrial age feasible. It is possible to look at the moon flight and be dismayed at the crass expenditure of money, sweat and time, the sheer materialist effort, the ultimate triumph of gadgetry, the unabashed hubris of technique...
...with a stodgy image and a company with a spotty record. In his tenure, U.S. Steel's share of domestic steel sales has slipped from 30% to 25%. Last week, hoping to reverse that trend sharply, the world's largest steelmaker picked a new management group. To succeed Lawyer Blough as chairman and chief executive, Big Steel's directors chose Edwin H. Gott, 60, an operations man who has been president for the past 18 months...
Other executive changes further underscored the policy shift. To succeed Gott as president, the board picked his longtime ally and fellow production specialist, Executive Vice President Edgar B. Speer, 52. Another executive vice president, R. Heath Larry, a lawyer and Blough protege who has long been considered his heir apparent, had to settle for the post of vice chairman. At 54, Larry is still young enough to have a shot at the top job later...