Word: successor
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Fulbright's successor as Foreign Relations Chairman will probably be Alabama's Senator John J. Sparkman, who usually follows the Administration's foreign policy. The committee's hearings will likely be much quieter in the days ahead than when Bill Fulbright was peering over his half-rimmed glasses and trying, in his own stubborn, professorial way, to tell the squirming representatives of a succession of American Presidents how the United States should conduct its foreign policy...
...wound, Rabin offered Eban the Minister of Information folio, a lesser Cabinet job that Eban has always considered superfluous. Former Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, 65-the kingmaker of the Labor Party-flatly refused to stay hi his post. According to Rabin's foes, Sapir even cautioned his chosen successor, Banking Executive Yaacov Levinson, not to accept the Finance portfolio because Sapir believes that the new government will not survive for more than two months. Nor has departing Golda Meir gone out of her way to bolster Rabin's cause. Since he was neither a dyed-in-the-wool...
...somewhat older style, where the film maker used the real people to recreate and explain what had occurred. Whatever the cause, a certain dogged clumsiness prevails throughout, as when Ross ruminates aloud, "Many of the staff don't think I have any emotion," or when he and his successor, Paul Ssali, play a game of darts and discuss the difficulties of change...
...final verdict on the specific findings of Time on the Cross, it's hard to fault its assumptions--that human beings, masters and slaves, will generally on the average act more or less decently if they have the chance, and that that is the reason that slavery or its successor forms of oppression should not exist...
Dean Rosovsky, Dunlop's successor, said yesterday he had received no official word of Dunlop's return, but said he would be "delighted" to have him rejoin the Faculty. "It has always been my hope that he would return to his professorial role at the University," he said...