Word: succeedings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...purge of undesirable Party members. Mao had been quietly weeding persons out for several months and the Red Guards continued the purge through embarrassment and sometimes direct physical assault on selected men at the lower Party levels. Simultaneously, their patron and hero confronted his last problem -- who was to succeed...
...Decibel Gap. By contrast with Maverick Shapp, Yale-trained Attorney Shafer is a dutiful, if undistinguished, party pro; he served two terms as a state senator before running with William Scranton-who cannot succeed himself-in 1962. While Shapp is a wispy, almost Chaplinesque figure, Shafer, son of a Protestant minister, is a craggy-faced, sandy-haired, 6-ft. 2-in. ex-athlete who won nine letters at Allegheny College to go with his Phi Beta Kappa key. Lawyer Shafer is as taciturn as Tycoon Shapp is talkative. Shafer "comes on like Mount Rushmore," as one Pennsylvanian puts...
...Banana. To succeed Thompson as ambassador at large, Johnson named Ellsworth Bunker, 72, a courtly, tough-minded troubleshooter. It was Bunker's Yankee courage and persistence, above all, that brought peace and honest elections to the Dominican Republic in 1966 after its acrid civil war. As an envoy of the Organization of American States, the tall, white-haired New Englander-moved unconcerned past furious rebels and through gunfire to meet the warring politicos and cajole them into signing a ceasefire. Later he served as mediator during the cliff-hanging months before President Joaquín Balaguer's inauguration...
College psychiatrists report that the student suicide rate is about 50% higher than that for either the general population or nonstudents of college age. Men are more efficient-or serious-about suicide than women, succeed in killing themselves three times as often for each attempt. Proportionately more graduate students commit suicide than undergraduates. Barbiturates are by far the most common method, distantly trailed by shooting and jumping...
While the new Republican Party is being drained down to its more responsible members, the moderate Democrats and Negroes do not know quite where to turn. Carl Sanders, who is ineligible ot succeed himself as governor, stated succinctly Monday after a European trip, "I am a Democrat: I will support the Democratic candidate." Sanders feels that he must support the party nominee since it was he who stressed party loyalty during Lyndon Johnson's 1964 campaign...