Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience watching Nasser's parade of military power, a burly, heavy-faced man in a white suit smiled contentedly and ran a comb through his mop of greying hair. Frozen-Faced Molotov's successor as Soviet Foreign Minister proved a man of many mobile impressions (see cuts). A year ago Dmitry Shepilov came to Cairo as editor of Pravda; a few months later came Nasser's arms deal with the Communists, which set Nasser up in business as a man no longer dependent on the West alone. Now, as Foreign Minister, Shepilov was, back to inspect...
Sharett's successor, bustling, Russian-born, Milwaukee-bred Golda Myerson is only the second woman in history to head a nation's foreign ministry (the first: Rumania's Communist virago Ana Pauker). She is expected to keep the place tidy and to give Ben-Gurion no trouble...
...Koprulu will attempt to head up an opposition group to Menderes within the Democratic Party is still to be seen. Menderes has the votes. But Koprulu is no small figure. He is one of the four founders (along with Menderes and President Celal Bayar) of the Democratic Party. His successor as Foreign Minister: Ethem Menderes, a relative of the Prime Minister, raised in Menderes' home...
...United Aircraft Corp. two years ago, Chance Vought and President Frederick 0. Detweiler, 44, have been through a difficult first solo. The last of C. V.'s famed prop-driven F4U Corsairs came off the line in 1953; bugs and engine trouble held back the Corsair's successor, the big twin-jet F7U Cutlass fighter, with production scheduled to end in late 1955. Though C. V. was also producing the Navy Regulus guided missile, had a development contract for a new supersonic missile and subcontracts from other planemakers, it needed a new plane to keep its 2.3 million...
...director of the World Bank, Black had put over the first $250 million World Bank bond issues. In 1949, when McCloy resigned to become U.S. High Commissioner for Germany (he is now board chairman of the merged Chase Manhattan Bank), Bond Salesman Black was tapped as his World Bank successor -at $30,000 (tax free) a year...