Word: succeeders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to Massachusetts YD president Peter Di Chicco, the purge probably won't succeed because the college clubs have at least half the votes on the parent organization--enough to stop the movement...
...Truax had the background and personality-not to mention the foursquare name-to succeed in government. Son of a U.S. Commerce Department official and son-in-law of a California municipal judge, the husky, crew-cut six-footer was graduated with honors from San Jose State College as a political-science major. Three and a half years ago, he landed an executive job with the newly formed Association of Bay Area Governments, a government-funded organization that was pioneering a regional approach to Northern California's problems. As it turned out, ABAC might have been designed to finance...
...south as Saigon. For several months, Giap is known to have been considering the use of warplanes in the south. Despite the huge array of U.S. radar, missiles and interceptors stationed to defeat any such attempt, the experts feel that suicide missions or low-flying intruders might just succeed in dropping their bombs...
Magritte did not attempt sculpture until the very end. Still, it was a fore gone conclusion that he would succeed handsomely. His enigmatic painting evoked objects seen in the round, and his bottles, painted in the forms of women, are among the most cherished talismans of the 1930s. The eight sculptures employ ideas Magritte previously used in his paintings, gaining solidity without loss of magic. La Folie des Grandeurs derives from a 1947 fantasy showing three women's torsos, each set implausibly one inside the other. Souvenir de Voyage shows a coffin reclining gracefully on an Empire couch...
...twelfth largest oil company, announced that Burns, 59, was leaving, in the usual amicable way to pursue the usual other interests of his own. Charles S. Mitchell, 58, who has spent 37 years in the petroleum business, moved up from the Cities Service presidency to succeed Burns...