Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increasing possibility of full-scale civil war and all that it implies led foreign diplomats in Havana to meet last week to consider an international humanitarian appeal to Castro to call off his firing squads. No appeal to either Castro or his opposition is likely to succeed. The opposition wants a fight to the finish. And so, apparently, does Castro...
They did not succeed. Hughes called Breech at breakfast the day of last week's scheduled meeting and informed him that he no longer favored enlarging the board. But what could Hughes do, since Breech and Olds had stock control of TWA? When Breech and Olds got to the meeting, they found out. Tipped off by Hughesmen, most of Hughes's directors did not show up at the meeting. An embarrassed Breech and Olds could not even get a quorum, therefore could not get Breech elected to the board. Since the bylaws state that only the directors...
Unless the courts stop Ling, his bid for control of Chance Vought might well succeed. At week's end tenders to sell him stock were still coming...
...Unique through Parliament, then quickly call for a snap election. Although Socialists allowed privately that they had no hope of winning the election, they were content with the indirect assurances given by Social Christian (Catholic) Boss Théo Lefevre that Premier Eyskens would not be allowed to succeed himself. "We are casting about for new faces," said Lefevre. Hope was that the next government would conveniently forget to implement the Loi Unique, thus permit Socialists and Catholics to patch over the ugly cleavages opened during the past five weeks. If there was any consolation, it was that the smoldering...
...nation's second largest life insurance company last week decided to wink at its own actuarial tables. To succeed retiring Carrol M. Shanks, 62, as president, the Prudential Insurance Co. (outranked only by Metropolitan Life) picked Executive Vice President Louis R. Menagh Jr., 68, a 46-year Prudential veteran who is already three years past the company's recommended retirement age. Menagh (rhymes with Lena) is a spry and active executive who attributes his good health to the fact that his mother lived to be 92, his father 89 (after retiring at 80-for one week). His selection...