Word: successor
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...career. But within a year or two Eliot discovered that his printer was supplementing his wages by selling copies of the exams to students even before the proofs were delivered to the professors. Believing this practise harmful to College morale, Eliot fired the printer, and looked about for a successor...
...choice of Herriot's successor quickly narrowed down to right-of-center Pierre Pflimlin and a 69-year-old Socialist lawyer named André Le Troquer, the Assembly's vice president for the past six years. In the predominantly rightist Assembly, Pflimlin was the favorite. But after three ballots, Le Troquer, one-armed veteran of World War I and a man of the Resistance in World War II, won by a vote...
Templer will stay in Malaya until June. His successor: Sir Donald MacGillivray, 47, a Scottish diplomat whose job it will be to consolidate the peace that Templer made possible by war. Templer's new job is the top field command that Britain has to give. Under NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Alfred M. Gruenther, he will command British, Canadian, Dutch, Belgian and Danish troops guarding the vital plainlands between the Baltic and the Rhine. The backbone of his command: some 80,000 men of Britain's Army of the Rhine, which includes the heaviest concentration of armor (three...
...population dropped by 150,000. The first rebel leader, an ex-slave himself, was Toussaint Louverture. To regain the colony, rich in sugar and indigo, Napoleon sent 70 ships and 40,000 men against Toussaint, and captured him. Toussaint died in prison in France. It fell to a successor, General Jean-Jacques Dessalines, the crafty "Tiger," to destroy the French...
Compassionate Empress. President Magloire, 46, Dessalines' 32nd successor, is proud to be as black as his country's great liberators, and like them a military man. He began his career as a cadet in the U.S. Marine-trained army, and by 1950 was a colonel and a power in the country. When President Dumarsais Estime lost the democratic touch and headed toward dictatorship, Colonel Magloire set up a military junta and ousted him. Then by direct popular vote, he was elected President. His strong regime has brought comparative stability; he has launched a $40 million Five Year Plan...