Word: successor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their jobs in ordinary street clothes, travel by bus or in their own cars to deliver babies, as one nurse put it, "just about everywhere except in the maternity shop at Marshall Field's." Says tall, greying Dr. Beatrice E. Tucker, who, as Founder De Lee's successor, has been with the center 22 years: "This is the most fascinating neighborhood I know. You are located exactly where you can do the most good...
...party secretary general stepped brisk, bright, 46-year-old Amintore Fanfani, an economist with a flair for politics and an eye for power. Fanfani led his Democratic Initiative faction to a clean sweep of party offices at Naples a month ago, thus made himself De Gasperi's logical successor (TIME, July 12). He knows the government like a stock table, having served in six cabinets as Minister of Labor, Agriculture and Interior and briefly as Premier earlier this year. "I am sure," De Gasperi once prophesied, "that one of these days I will open the door to my study...
...Said Mendèes: "The national interest demands that the vote be already obtained when I hand in my resignation." It would be the last act of his government, he declared. "Thus, I will remain faithful to the wish I expressed on taking office, that I would leave my successor a better situation than I myself inherited...
Though eventually there should be water enough for all, the new canal will divert the Sutlej River. waters, which irrigate much of Pakistan's fertile West Punjab, before Pakistan can build compensating canals. Pakistan fears that Nehru-or a less friendly successor-could, if he wished, turn West Punjab into the desert it once...
...will finish the remaining four years of Butler's term. One will finish the last two months of the expiring term left vacant by Griswold's death this spring (now filled by Interim Appointee Eva Bowring). The third will begin a new six-year term as successor to Senator Bowring's successor, whoever that...