Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance at all. The only chance for Carlos Marquez Sterling, 59, lawyer and economist, lay in the unlikely possibility that Batista might want a graceful exit from an uncomfortable situation. The favorite was Batista's man, Andres Rivero Aguero, 53, a longtime henchman hand-picked to succeed the dictator. At Batista's side since 1933, Rivero Aguero was one of his lieutenants in the 1952 coup, was rewarded with the Ministry of Education and last year with the title of Prime Minister...
...manner of saving it is to throw away as much of it as possible. What they give instead is an illustrated lecture-on the art of timing, of diversionary tactics, of seeming to fondle dialogue while carefully holding it at arm's length. Even they cannot too often succeed; and in any case there must, for two such delightful performers, be infinitely more profitable roles...
...course there had to be someone to succeed Sinclair Weeks. The country must have a Secretary of Commerce because otherwise there wouldn't be anyone in the Cabinet to speak for big business. And big business does need spokesmen...
However, Dogherty does not think that the petition will succeed in forcing a Council referendum on the matter. "But the debate stimulated by such a campaign might bring out new and effective ways of strengthening the present Council," he said...
...Miami Beach last week 146 bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church elected a new presiding bishop to succeed Boston's Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill who, after almost twelve years in the post, next month reaches the mandatory retirement age of 68. The new "P.B.": the Rt. Rev. Arthur C. Lichtenberger, 58, Bishop of Missouri since...