Word: succeeding
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...Division. Picked to succeed Reischauer was U. (for Ural)* Alexis Johnson, 57, Deputy Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs and him self an old Asia hand. Also fluent in Japanese, Kansas-born Johnson started his career as an embassy language officer in Tokyo in 1935; on Pearl Harbor Day, as a vice consul in Japanese-controlled Manchuria, he was interned. Exchanged in 1942, he later joined General Douglas MacArthur's Tokyo staff. More recently, Johnson was deputy ambassador in Saigon before returning to Washington last year...
...whiskey or its top management. Ever since Founder George Garvin Brown began bottling Old Forester in 1870, the company has stuck to top-grade bourbons and to a Brown in charge of its headquarters in Kentucky's bluegrass country. Last week Brown-Forman varied the recipe. To succeed third-generation President George Garvin Brown, who is moving to the chairmanship on the retirement of his older (by six years) brother W. L. Lyons Brown, 60, the company picked Executive Vice President Daniel L. Street...
House Rules Committee Chairman Smith thus became the first nationally prominent Congressman to lose his seat in the recent wave of redistricting. Next in line to succeed him as committee chairman is Democrat William Colmer of Mississippi, who, if possible, is even more conservative than Smith. Smith's defeat was, nonetheless, a traumatic shock to the House's Southern Democrats, for there is no other leader of his prestige and skill to assume captaincy of the bloc...
...have terrific morale," says one U.S. fighter-bomber pilot, "and half of it is knowing that these guys will come and get us out. They will try and try and try." To a remarkable extent, they succeed...
Etherington's acceptance of the Wesleyan presidency came as a surprise to Wall Street, which considered him the man most likely to succeed Funston, who is expected to retire from the Big Board in the fall. Etherington, however, says that he has always been interested in education, and sees no radical discontinuity between investment and learning. He left law practice to join the exchange in the firm belief that its "whole raison d'étre is public service.'' Education, he adds, is simply the highest type of service...