Word: succeeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration's difficulty in recruiting top policy-making officials from outside the government. Professor Eugene Rostow, who will leave Yale Law School to become Under-Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, was the only outsider named to fill one of the three vacant positions. Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach will succeed George Ball as Under-Secretary of State and Foy Kohler, the American ambassador to the Soviet Union, will be the new Deputy Under-Secretary for Political Affairs...
Rostow, who will succeed the much maligned Thomas Mann in the third-ranking post in the State Department, is expected to assume Ball's duties in supervising U.S. policy toward Europe. Like Ball, he firmly believes in a strong Atlantic Alliance including the Common Market and Great Britain, although three years ago he authored a plan for intra-alliance nuclear sharing that differed sharply in conception from the MLF plan backed by Ball. Most important, he must cope with the problems of French military independence, West Germany's nuclear role, and the size and significance of U.S. troop commitments...
...from the riots in Atlanta's Negro slums was Ellis Arnall, a polished millionaire lawyer who in 1942 wrested the governorship from the legendary Gene Talmadge. Running as an outspoken racial moderate, Arnall, now 59, this year had to compete with five others for the Democratic nomination to succeed Governor Carl Sanders. His most formidable opposition came from segregationists, who did their utmost to exploit the specter of black power...
True to his reputation for intransigence, the younger Thurston refused to relinquish the reins of his faltering newspaper. He scorned the man who seemed destined to succeed him, his Yale-trained nephew, Thurston Twigg-Smith. "He's never been any damn good at anything," he sneered. Twigg-Smith, however, had a different view of his own abilities. In 1961, he engineered a "palace revolution." Though he controlled only 42% of the paper's stock, he quietly signed up other rebels, including the paper's ambitious editor George Chaplin, who had been hired from the New Orleans Item...
...goods that make up the $184 billion in annual trade among nonCommunist countries. Said the chief U.S. negotiator, Ambassador W. Michael Blumenthal: "All the main participants now have the will to achieve agreement. There will be some cliffhangers, but I'm confident that in the end we will succeed...