Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old author of two leading textbooks used by colleges throughout the country in freshman writing courses will succeed Carter Davidson, Union's president for 19 years, who will become president of the Association of American Colleges...
...succeed, it will not be because of what we have, but it will be because of what we are; not because of what we own, but rather because of what we believe. For we are a nation of believers. Underneath the clamor of building and the rush of our day's pursuits, we are believers in justice and liberty and union, and in our own Union. We believe that every man must some day be free. And we believe in ourselves...
...Harvard, where early support for advanced placement helped the plan succeed nationally, almost half the freshman class arrived last fall having done some college-level work in high school, and 191 entered as sophomores. Those who enter advanced courses directly from high school do better than those who have taken the preliminary work as college freshmen. "One possible conclusion," jokes a Harvard official, "is that the high schools can teach better than...
...General Motors Chairman. Frederic Donner, who made $800,000 in 1964.) Starting soon, the huge M.I.T. check will be made out in the name of a new man. Last week the fund announced that Kenneth L. Isaacs, 60, M.I.T.'s vice chairman for the past eleven years, will succeed Dwight P. Robinson Jr., 65, as board chairman...
...estimated their government budget deficit for 1965 at $860 million-and that was just an optimistic guess. The actual deficit, say economists, is likely to be closer to $1 billion. Moreover, better than half of the red ink flows from a handful of state-owned enterprises that seem to succeed only in costing the country money. The state oil monopoly, Y.P.F., is expected to lose $120 million this year; millions more go for the state-run airline and merchant fleets...