Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond that, there is the possibility-once just a joke about the numerousness of the Kennedys, now sometimes talked about seriously-that Bobby might try to succeed Jack in the White House. Any mention of this notion angers Bob Kennedy. "This idea is so obviously untrue." he says, "that it's foolish, even as rumor." Voters might agree. Bobby lacks his brother's easy grace; he is earthier, bristling in his loyalties (the U.S., Jack, and his church; other Kennedys; other Democrats), implacable in his enmities. Jack has been called the first Irish Brahmin; Bobby is the Irish...
G.O.P. boss of booming Nassau County and Speaker of the New York state assembly, was a leading aspirant to succeed Nelson Rockefeller as Governor some...
Last week, as a record 375,000 voters went to the polls, it seemed like 1948 all over again. Unable to run himself (by law, two full terms must elapse before a President can succeed himself). Figueres and his National Liberation Party put up Francisco J. Orlich, 54, a well-to-do farmer and former boss of Figueres' public-works program. Main opposition: Old Enemy Calderón Guardia, now 61, and his Republican Party, which Figueres claimed was getting both money and arms from Communist Cuba. "We are armed, too," said Figueres, promising a fight if Calder...
...Jazz Version of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (the Gary McFarland Orchestra; Verve). Arranger-Bandleader McFarland achieves the all but impossible by putting some bite and character into the bland Frank Loesser score. Paris Original and Brotherhood of Man are gingery with ingenious instrumental chatter; I Believe in You turns into a fine, lightly swinging solo for Flugelhorn...
...threat of nuclear destruction have nearly paralyzed our diplomacy, and have doomed attempts to negotiate agreement with the Soviet Union on arms control or on disarmament . . . The United States must act to create conditions in which attempts to settle the myriad issues where common interest overrules opposing interests can succeed...