Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rapidly being toasted away. Grace's plan for a big family was especially agreeable to the Monégasques, who felt that their Prince was closer to saving them from the dread fate of French taxes and military conscription that would result if Rainier died without a successor...
Last month Euratom got a helping hand from the U.S.'s John Foster Dulles. He invited Rene Mayer, Monnet's successor as president of the Coal and Steel Community to visit Washington next month to talk up Euratom...
...than a guest in the White House. Same for Tennessee's Senator Estes Kefauver, who might be Vice President some time, but should have checked his big move until 1960. In that year, the candidate of a labor-controlled Demo cratic Party will be elected President. His Democratic successor in 1964: Labor Chieftain Walter Reuther. As for Richard Nixon, Jeane Dixon doesn't "know why the Democrats hate him so, because he is riding a terribly high planet ... is an instrument for good [and] will become a very real power in our Government...
...successor: Vienna-born Erich Leinsdorf, 43, onetime conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, the Cleveland Orchestra, and now the Rochester Philharmonic...
Turbine Auto. General Motors Corp. has built a four-passenger successor to its experimental gas-turbine car, the Firebird. The Firebird II's engine, said President Harlow Curtice, "gives promise of being able to operate with substantially the same economy as present-day automotive piston engines." Instead of wasting the tremendous blast of heat that comes out of the back of the engine, the Firebird recaptures about 80% of it by means of a heat exchanger, uses it to raise the temperature of intake air and thus improve combustion. G.M. does not plan to produce the titanium-bodied Firebird...