Word: successor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...successor has not yet been announced...
...white man's world. "The agenda, though," he says, "has changed so greatly from ten years ago." Farmer is trying to catch up, but the new militancy has led many a former integrationist into a theoretical muddle. He finds himself considerably to the right of Roy Innis, his successor at CORE, and other young separatists like Stokely Carmichael for whom he feels vaguely responsible...
Upturned Faces. As he concluded his State of the Union address, Johnson put in an unusual word with the Congress for his successor. "President-elect Nixon, in the days ahead, is going to need your understanding, just as I did, and he is entitled to have it," said the President. "And I hope every member will remember that the burdens he will bear as our President will be borne...
There is practically no oil in Italy, yet the state-run E.N.I, monopoly became a world petroleum power under the late Enrico Mattei and his successor, Eugenio Cefis. Mattei bought crude from the Soviets, developed natural-gas resources in the Po Valley, and proudly declared that in building E.N.I., "I broke 8,000 laws." To sidestep Cyclopean bureaucrats-with their time-consuming rules about building permits and their endless paper work-he laid the pipelines at night, while the officials slept...
...Eisenhower's first Defense Secretary Charles Wilson sold $2.5 million worth of General Motors stock before taking office in 1953. A successor, Robert McNamara, also an automobile company president, was compelled to sell $1.5 million in Ford stock...