Word: succeedings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...organizing the committee, shared that confidence. Though his enthusiasm was at a low ebb several weeks ago when he declared, "To use an old Kentucky ex pression, I suppose I am just plain track sore," now Morton was ebulliently predicting that in a short time the committee would succeed in mustering broad support for Rockefeller's candidacy. Added Morton: "If we can't do it in four weeks, then we might as well give up. We'll have more delegates lined up in four weeks than a mule can haul...
...highest office, the earth's most awesome responsibility. An awkward, ungainly member of an attractive family, he nevertheless generates a perverse sort of magnetism and hypnotism on those who have forgotten or never knew. Obsessed yet pitiful, cynical yet credulous, intense yet coy, this distorted Kennedy may succeed in his warped crusade, but if he wins, we shall all lose...
...came to last week's Liberal Party convention in Ottawa as a front runner. At week's end Trudeau was elected party leader on the fourth ballot by a vote of 1,203 to 954 over the nearer of his two main opponents. Thus he will formally succeed Pearson as Prime Minister some time later this month...
Kaplan's heart beats with the triple yearning of the immigrant-to be free, to learn and to succeed. This riptide of desire roars across the stage in a number called Anything Is Possible, a paean to the American dream in which Kaplan outlines his own humble wish to have a tailor's shop with his name over it. He gets it, and he also gets his night-school sweetheart, Rose Mitnick (Barbara Minkus...
American composer Roger Sessions is to be the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard next year. At Radcliffe, Mr. and Mrs. Richard R. Baxter will succeed the Honorable Maureen Neuberger as head of South House...