Word: succeedings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Training. Last week Oklahoma's regents named a new president to succeed Cross, who plans to retire in 1968 after 24 years in office. He is John Herbert Hollomon, 48, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce. A pipe-smoking yachtsman with a doctorate in metallurgy from M.I.T., Hollomon was general manager of the General Electric laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y., when President Kennedy named him as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Science and Technology in 1962. President Johnson promoted him to Acting Under Secretary last February. Highly regarded in university circles-Virginia and Pittsburgh were also considering him for president-Hollomon...
Appointed by Constantine to succeed 86-year-old Archbishop Chrysostomos, who was retired by the new military government (TIME, May 19), leronymos promises to bring a breath of needed fresh air to Greece's dormant, dominant church. A native of the marble-quarrying island of Tinos, leronymos was ordained a deacon in 1932, earned scholarships to theological schools in England and Germany. He is an expert in canon law, with 90 published works to his credit, has a doctorate in divinity from the University of Athens. After World War II, he came to Queen Frederika's attention...
Such a coalition can succeed, he said, while a third party based on opposition to the Vietnam war would "probably pull less than a million votes" and only aid conservatives...
...mighty hard acts to follow. What Pope, for example, would seem charismatic after John XXIII? When Harry Emerson Fosdick retired as minister of Manhattan's interdenominational, cathedral-size Riverside Church in 1946, many Christian leaders wondered how its pulpit committee could possibly find the right man to succeed the nation's best-known liberal Protestant preacher. Last week, when Fosdick's successor announced his intention to retire in June because of a heart condition, the same kind of question was asked: Where could the committee find a proper successor to the Rev. Robert James McCracken...
...regard to [Efram J.] Sigal's article ("New Peace Corps Volunteers has Big Plans; Two Years Later He is Watching the Clock," March 6). The Peace Corps stands on its own merits. It may succeed, and it may fail. But if it fails, it won't be because of the people who work within the framework of its ideas...