Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York Times correspondent, Adenauer said for publication what he had been telling political cronies for weeks: although Erhard is a "very talented man," he has not enough political experience to be Chancellor now. Moreover, Adenauer denied that Erhard-generally accepted as his successor-even has a majority of the Christian Democratic Party behind...
...Bunting will assume office on July 1, 1960, replacing Wilbur K. Jordan, who has been President of the College since 1943. Jordan announced his resignation last winter, and a special committee has been working for several months to select his successor. Over a hundred names were given at least some consideration...
...kept the President informed of the best scientific thinking, helped chart the course of U.S. space policy. Last week, at 54, fittingly on the very day that the U.S. sent the first living creatures traveling through space and back, Killian resigned to return to his duties at M.I.T. His successor: Russian-born George Bogdan ("K.") Kistiakowsky, 58, brilliant professor of chemistry at Harvard and every inch a scientists' scientist...
...Salazar refused their request and went before television cameras at week's end to insist that the great mass of the Portuguese people are behind him. But reports of his imminent departure persisted. If he is really bent on getting out, he would want to hand-pick his successor. Likely candidates: respected ex-President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes, known as "The Man Who Never Smiles," and strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) Pedro Teotonio Pereira, Salazar's right-hand man and current Minister of the Presidency. Pereira once quarreled with Salazar but has since made his peace with...
...chores on the July good-will trip to Moscow. From then on he will be Nixon's press secretary through the 1960 campaign.* And if 1960 should be Richard Nixon's year, Herb Klein might well be expected to move on to the White House as the successor to Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty...