Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Appointment of the week: J. (for John) Paul Leonard, 55, to succeed the late Stephen Penrose Jr. as president of the American University of Beirut. A Ph.D. from Columbia University and onetime professor of education at Stanford, Leonard became president of San Francisco State College in 1945. moved his 800 students from four drab buildings in downtown San Francisco to a modern $18 million campus near Lake Merced, saw enrollments rise to 9,200, the prestige of his college grow to such an extent that the California legislature has just okayed a $14 million expansion program. At Beirut...
...accept the chairman's plaintive excuse that student contributions have dropped steadily since the end of World War II. Such claims should be carefully examined, and solutions for the problems that have been raised should be found. Council action, if undertaken as a sincere attempt to find cures, can succeed...
...Administration's apathy has placed the full burden of securing Negros themselves, which is deeply resented by the South. Without firm and outspoken action by the President on behalf of the nation, the South may succeed in their obstruction of justice for many years. The Administration has a clear obligation to allieviate the Negro's status of second-class citizenship as soon and as effectively as possible. In the words of John Maynard Keynes, "In the long run, we shall all be dead." There is no justification for allowing these people to be deprived of their constitutional rights any longer...
...Eisenhower court. In 1937 F.D.R. tried and failed to get Congress to raise the number of Justices from nine to 15. But he got the New Deal sympathy he wanted within three years by naming Liberal Democrats Hugo Black, Reed, Felix Frankfurter and William O. Douglas to succeed Justices Van Devanter, Sutherland, Cardozo and Brandeis-key figures on the court that New Dealers scornfully called "The Nine Old Men." Since 1953 Ike has named three-Republicans Chief Justice Earl Warren and John Marshall Harlan, Democrat William J. Brennan Jr. Of the F.D.R. holdovers, Justice Black is now 70, Justice Frankfurter...
...semi-novel purporting to display the hopeless struggle of French colonialism to save the truncated country from the onrushing tide of the Communist Viet Minh. As late as two years ago, touring Columnist Joseph Alsop pronounced South Viet Nam doomed. And the French, embarrassed at seeing the U.S. succeed with South Viet Nam's Ngo Dinh Diem where they had failed, whispered that it was only a matter of time...