Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first acts of his successor, George Mehren, 60, onetime Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, was to try to persuade Nixon associates to get the Justice Department to drop the antitrust suit. In an answer to a questionnaire from Senator Sam Ervin's Watergate committee, former AMPI Secretary Dwight I. Morris claimed to have evidence that Mehren offered Nixon Attorney Herbert W. Kalmbach another $300,000 in campaign funds if the suit were dropped. According to Morris, Kalmbach refused the offer because of the controversy raging over the Administration's antitrust settlement with...
Most observers assume that Pompidou will not remain in office until his seven-year term ends in 1976. This assumption inevitably has fueled speculation about his successor in the Elysée. More than that, it has put the contenders in the peculiar situation of having to jockey for position without appearing eager to take advantage of the President's illness. So far, Pompidou has anointed no one to succeed him. But the odds are overwhelming that the next man to wear the medal and sash of the Président de la République will...
Gehlen's successor, Gerhard Wessel, 60, first attempted to remedy his growing staff shortages with blind newspaper ads: "Multinational company with worldwide operations seeks multilingual executive assistant willing to travel." Other multinational companies, however, outbid him with more intriguing ads and better pay. In desperation, Wessel decided to go public. He ordered his small public relations staff, whose major function previously had been to keep the BND out of the news, to thrust it into the limelight instead...
...first two records-Greetings from Asbury Park, TV., and The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle-have been the subject of vaulting claims of the discovery of a 1970s successor to Dylan...
...will find it hard not to be impressed by the great success his successor, Ray Essick, has enjoyed this season, and the strides Harvard has taken towards national swimming prominence...