Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps a year or two from now, suggested Donovan, it will become clear whether the U.S. policy in Viet Nam will ultimately fail or succeed. Either outcome will bring about "a kind of crisis of integrity in which powerful and influential people will have to consider the possibility of saying out loud that they were wrong. Many of them have never tried it before, and it would not come easy to them. But if they cannot bring themselves to it, I think the American intellectual climate and the whole tone of our politics could be embittered for years...
...both sides of the ocean, and earthquakes 100 times worse than any ever recorded will be felt all over the world. Clearly, Icarus must be stopped. No expense will be spared, and the only limitation is time. The program must use existent space technology and hardware, and it must succeed...
...futuristic comedy about a family living in a deep-sea bungalow, and Natural Enemies, the saga of a young couple adopted by a pride of lions. This fall, Tors will have five TV shows in the early-evening time slot, five more in reruns and a strong claim to succeed Walt Disney as the leading producer of family films...
Command changes at major banks are usually about as suspenseful as tomorrow's office hours. But not at Manhattan's aggressive First National City Bank. President George S. Moore, 62, was a cinch to succeed Chairman James Stillman Rockefeller, due to retire next month at 65. But who would follow Moore? There was no lack of topflight candidates, as is only fitting for the bank that, with assets of $15 billion, ranks only behind the Bank of America ($18 billion) and Chase Manhattan ($15.8 billion). Moore himself had been no help in the guessing game, having once said...
...keeping with the Deutsche Bank's retirement age of 65, Abs has just stepped up to the elder-statesman role of chairman of its supervisory board. To succeed him as Sprecher des Vorstandes, or speaker for its ten-man executive board, the Frankfurt-based bank picked not one but two associates: Karl Klasen, 58, head of its Hamburg office, and Franz Heinrich Ulrich, 56, who will also continue to manage its Dusseldorf division. Though withdrawing from active banking, Abs remains one of his country's most powerful businessmen. A director of 29 large companies, he retains the chairmanship...