Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...settle. Trygve Lie, Hammarskjold's Norwegian predecessor, sometimes gave the impression that he thought he could settle anything. Earnest and eager, Lie once hawked his personal plan for 20 years of peace from one world capital to another. He got nowhere with it. Ruefully, Trygve Lie warned his successor: "This is the most impossible job in the world...
...baccalaureate speech at Massachusetts' Brandeis University, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt lamented the end of America's revolutionary enterprise. However, she saw a successor to carry on the torch: "I can think of only one country which today contains the spirit which founded America, and that is the state of Israel...
...introduced as the successor to Mrs. Hollis G. Gerrish at a traditional Alumnae Day luncheon, held in Memorial Hall. The luncheon was attended by 700 alumnae and graduate students and seniors who will receive degrees at Radcliffe Commencement tomorrow...
...year ago the candidate would probably have been Odria's close friend, General Zenón Noriega. But last fall Noriega, impatient to be boss, hatched an ill-timed plot; he now lives obscurely in Argentine exile. The unrest that followed may have helped convince Odria that his successor should be a civilian. Half a dozen, all from the wealthy right, are vaguely available. Among them: ex-President Manuel Prado, fondly remembered for staging 1945's free elections, and Foreign Minister David Aguilar. But whoever runs, only one vote will really count. That is the vote of Manuel...
...Many Girls. Foundry's Pastoral Relations Committee scouted for Dr. Harris' successor like a big-business board of directors looking for a new vice president in charge of advertising. The man they picked, after six months of winnowing and weighing, would be an asset to the advertising department of any firm. The Rev. Dr. Theodore Henry Palmquist, 53, of Los Angeles' big (some 2,400 members) Wilshire Methodist Church, has the go-getting drive and the social flair of a successful adman-which was just what he started...