Word: successor
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...which eventually will cost $1.3 billion each to produce. The Navy wants Tridents to start replacing Polaris submarines in 1978. The budget also contains $500 million for development of the B-l bomber. The Air Force hopes to buy 244 of them for $11 billion by 1980 as a successor to aging B-52s. In addition, the Air Force wants $20.6 million to test-fire eight Minuteman missiles from their silos in Montana 5,000 miles into the Pacific to demonstrate the system's reliability. The budget also would permit researchers to begin work on several new weapons systems. Among...
After Grivas' death, Archbishop Makarios proclaimed an amnesty for all imprisoned and wanted EOKA-B members; in response, Grivas' successor as head of EOKA-B ordered a stop to all terrorist activities. While not officially identified, the new commander is thought to be Major Vassilios Kourkafas, a relatively unknown Greek army officer. There remained some concern that the more fanatical elements of the EOKA-B would renew the terrorist campaign, but observers wondered how long the band of several hundred men would survive without Grivas' leadership...
...Harvard's success is, of course, top quality personnel. The appointment of Don Gambril as coach three years ago and of Essick as his successor this year has attracted some world class swimmers. Freshman Peter Tetlow's best time in the 1000-yard freestyle ranks him with Olympians John Kinsella and Rick Demont. Sophomore Hess Yntema is nationally ranked in the 200-yard butterfly and the 200-yard individual medley. And the list goes...
...amendments offered on the floor. By steadily playing his own cards right, he rose to become party whip in 1971. Then, in October 1972, an airplane carrying Majority Leader Hale Boggs disappeared while flying across Alaska. In November, with Boggs presumed dead, the Democrats prepared to elect his successor. Before he became a candidate, O'Neill asked permission of Boggs' wife to go ahead, to be sure that she had given up hope that her husband would ever be found. Working the telephone, O'Neill lined up the support of 121 Democrats in three days...
...world is dangerously imperfect. There are no doctors, and so Comte dies of routine appendicitis. He becomes an object of mythic veneration, a Mao Tse-tung of the new age. In a post script - one has seen it coming a hun dred pages away - a successor notes that his fellow survivors have voted "that practical research into the manufacture of .36 rifle bullets should be instituted immediately and given top priority." And so on. But post-apocalypse society is fun while it lasts...