Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solemn Vows. Last week, as high government officials, the hierarchy of the Greek church, leading judges and Members of Parliament gathered solemnly for a candlelight ceremony at the royal palace, new King Constantine kissed a silver-bound Bible, then took the royal oath. "I succeed my father to the throne with the firm determination to follow his lofty example," Constantine declared. "I pledge to serve my country with wholehearted devotion, and all my powers as a vigilant guardian of the free institutions of the democratic regime. My only thoughts and cares will always be the true and supreme interest...
Back from a four-day swing through California, the President played host to 70-odd Congressmen and their wives at a White House party (see following story). Next day he swore in the St. Louis Cardinals' retired star Stan Musial as director of his Physical Fitness Program to succeed former Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who aims to run for the Senate on the G.O.P. ticket in Oklahoma. "Stan the Man" looked around the crowded Cabinet Room with a broad grin, cracked: "If I'd known I had so many friends in Washington, I might have run for office...
...Sammy Glick, who progresses, like a good heel should, from cutting corners to cutting throats. But since the book came out in 1941, something unsettling has happened to the heel; now the question is whether he should be scorned for his gall or admired for his How-to-Succeed spunk, shunned as a social leper or respected as a social dynamo. When the Sammy Clicks and Harry Bogens (I Can Get It for You Wholesale) first appeared in novels, the socio-economic climate was troubled, and heels were regarded as products of "the system," whose hardboiled inhumanity they reflected...
...world outside the picture window. "The steady one marries is so much one's half that one hardly needs anybody else. Every problem, every ambition has been shared for so long that one is terribly dependent on one's mate. The extent to which successful American marriages succeed never fails to hit me when I watch grandparents behaving like honeymooners, always together, holding hands and cooing. There are, of course, those who divorce, but I suspect that the high rate of divorce in America comes from the tremendous expectation placed on marriage, by a certain lack of maturity...
...trouble with having the Speaker of the House" succeed to the Vice Presidency, Freund said, is that he might be of a different party than the President...