Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...110A, in the works for more than two years, is the natural successor to the Boeing B-52 (now replacing the long-range B-36) and an advance on Convair's B58 Hustler, a Mach 2 medium bomber (not yet operational). Both the B-52 and B58 require refueling on intercontinental missions, while the WS-110A should be able to fly from Chicago to Moscow and back without refueling. If the WS-110A prototype proves its worth, the plane could be in production in about five years, an important ace in the sky in the event that untried, untested...
...year of retreat and disarray for the West. For Britain and France, the U.S. allies who fill out the world's Big Four, the year's theme was a recessional. Sir Anthony Eden, physically sick and spiritually drained after the fiasco at Suez, resigned as Prime Minister. His successor put out a White Paper proclaiming that Britannia was done with ruling the waves, was thinning out the proud red line of far-flung posts on which the sun never set, and withdrawing to a more realistic stance as a tidier, tighter nuclear power. Guy Mollet, the other architect...
...black Thunderbird rolled off a Ford plant assembly line, a worker affectionately scrawled in soap on the hood: "Bye, bye, baby." It signaled the end of the two-seater T-bird; this week Ford put out the car's 1958 successor, the ballyhooed four-seater. Ford's affection for the T-bird sprang from its surprising success. Ford expected to lose some $10 million on the car but make it up in added prestige for standard Fords. Instead, it sold twice as well as expected (53,166 produced in all), and made a profit to boot. The sleek...
...nine months of looking for a successor to retiring School Superintendent William Jansen, 70, the New York City Board of Education seemed to favor one man. Dr. John J. Theobald, 53, has no degree in education and never taught in a public school, but as the energetic president of municipal Queens College and more recently as New York's deputy mayor, he has come to know as much about his city and its huge (1,000,000 pupils) school system as any man. Last week, after looking over 24 candidates from all over the U.S., the board announced that...
...daughter to sit at the organ and sing him awake. Ruge was so impressed that he urged her to study. Since then she has risen to opera stardom in Europe. Once, following a performance, Flagstad herself appeared in Aase's dressing room and announced: "You are my successor...