Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle. Pompidou's figure is kept well within the public eyes. De Gaulle calls for a referendum. If he wins, he can nominate Pompidou as his Premier and successor. If he loses, Pompidou is not hurt by the results and is still the most prominent candidate to succeed De Gaulle. One way or the other, as on almost every occasion...
...result of such escalation, Cairenes talk increasingly of the inevitability of full-scale war sometime in the indeterminate future. Next time, they say, a surprise Israeli blitz will not succeed, because Israel is already at the limits of its natural military frontiers. If the Israelis cross the Suez, the Egyptians plan to take advantage of Israel's overextended supply lines by forcing a prolonged campaign inside Egypt?in Nasser's words, an "inch-by-inch war." It is historically such a Russian concept of defense by attrition that he just possibly did not think of it himself. Says Nasser...
...Lyndon Johnson nominated his old friend and adviser to the high court in 1965, witnesses turned the Senate confirmation hearing into a denunciation of Fortas. The Justice later distinguished himself in three court sessions, only to face more virulent-and effective-opposition last year when Johnson selected him to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice. Partly because of conservative disgruntlement with Fortas' liberal record and partly because of Republican confidence that the G.O.P. would shortly be able to name the Chief Justice, the nomination bogged down in an acrimonious Senate filibuster. Johnson finally withdrew Fortas' name...
...Italian prelates; now, only eight top posts are held by Italians. "This is what we have been demanding," said John Cardinal Wright of Pittsburgh, one of four Americans who received their red birettas last week. "The Pope is meeting us more than halfway." Cardinal Wright was appointed to succeed Villot as Prefect of the Congregation of the Clergy, a job that grows more sensitive as the clergy grow more restive...
...Tuesday, the newly-appointed temporary chairman of the Standing Committee--Richard A. Musgrave, professor of Economics--asked the Faculty to withhold judgement of the program until "we have been given a chance to succeed...