Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pick our managers on the basis of need and business ability," Burke notes. Under this criterion, a student of means would be excluded from agency management unless he brought up the original idea. The outgoing manager, in conjunction with the director of Student Employment, can nominate a successor for the approval of the Board of Directors. However, since nine of the fifteen directors are graduates now in business and without direct College contact, approval is only rubber-stamp...
...late talked a great deal about retirement, and many of his countrymen, sensing a staleness of leadership, have begun to wonder whether he is the one to lead them through the difficulties that lie ahead. For a report on those difficulties and a thoroughgoing look at a likely successor to Nehru, see FOREIGN NEWS, Billion-Dollar Troubles...
...have never urged him to [resign], nor asked him to, nor anything else. I have had a very-as a matter of fact, very-congenial talk with him." Most likely outcome: Wilkins will stay for the few months necessary to qualify him for a higher pension. His probable successor: Mitchell's administrative assistant, George Lodge, 31, son of U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge...
...Until a successor is named, Minister of Justice C. R. "Blackie" Swart would serve as acting Prime Minister, but life will be little different with Strijdom gone. What had given him power was the depressing fact that, to most Afrikaners, Johannes Gerhardus Strijdom's combination of righteousness and ruthlessness seemed to reflect a common ideal...
...Freud's. (They regard the Freudians as proselyters, and proselyting as a reflection of unconscious insecurity.) But they have been so unquestioning in their acknowledgment of Jung's leadership that no one of them is emerging as a possible head man to succeed him. That a successor may soon be needed was clear last week. Carl Gustav Jung, now 83, secluded himself from all but small groups of his followers, who made pilgrimages to his retreat at Kusnacht. Jung made only token appearances at the congress' opening and closing sessions...