Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chidlaw's successor: General Earle Everard Partridge, also 54, commander of the Far East Air Forces. An enlisted infantry soldier in World War I (St. Mihiel, the Argonne, Verdun), "Pat" Partridge re-enlisted after the Armistice, won an appointment from the ranks to West Point, joined the embryonic Army Air Service after graduation in 1924. A test pilot and flight instructor in the years that followed, Partridge never lost his love for flying as he rose to top command, e.g., Eighth Air Force in Europe, Fifth Air Force in Korea...
...shelter of the Kremlin's controlled press, Russia's top men seemed inept, uncertain, boorish. Yugoslavs watched the antics of Nikita Khrushchev with amazement. Western diplomats, remembering the remote, inscrutable, implacable Joseph Stalin, had to keep reminding themselves that this garrulous little man was his successor...
Only Togliatti's intimates know how ill he really is and whether the time has come at last to pick a successor for the man whose wile, resilience and strength built Italy's Communist Party into the largest (2,000,000 members by non-Communist estimate) and most persistently threatening (6,000,000 votes in the 1953 election) in the Western world...
...Kelley's regime Anaconda's assets have soared from $226 million to $870 million, its sales from $150 million to $461 million. Last week Kelley had some good news for his successor, still to be chosen. Said he: "Anaconda's future was never so bright...
...Europeans were urgent. The French Assembly had agreed to permit the West Germans to rearm only on the promise, offered by Mendes-France and confirmed by his successor, that there would be a new attempt to negotiate with the Russians before the Germans actually got their guns. Germany's staunch old Konrad Adenauer faced a similar demand at home for "one more conference." Most urgent of all was Britain's Harold Macmillan, whose instructions from campaigning Prime Minister Anthony Eden were to get a parley at the summit and to get it quickly-Macmillan was to announce...