Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perk's successor, voters chose Dennis Kucinich, 32. He appointed as department heads a group of young Turks who sometimes seemed better suited for an Our Gang movie than for governing a city of 623,000 people. The Kucinich administration quickly shook up the city's business and political establishment-so badly that a recall campaign came within 236 votes of ousting him from office last Aug. 13. Now almost everything seems to be going wrong in Cleveland...
...with San Franciscan Richard Hongisto, a liberal defender of homosexuals' rights, who at first was widely disliked by the police but quickly gained the department's respect. Within months Kucinich fell out with the chief and fired him. Not until last week did Kucinich name a permanent successor. The mayor's choice: Jeffrey Fox, a 36-year-old former city personnel director with no previous police experience. The selection left the force seething in anger...
Chances are that Kerry, anxious to run the show officially at the courthouse on Thorndike St., will not be named successor because of his relative inexperience (the former head of Vietnam Veterans Against the War is only two years out of law school). If the opportunity does arise, you can be sure that Scott Harshbarger will be considered. Ah, sweet irony of democracy...
...chairman of New York State's Public Service Commission. Under his direction, the PSC allowed telephone users to hook up their own equipment to the Bell system and permitted utility companies to set different electric rates depending on the time of day. As Kahn advised his CAB successor, Marvin Cohen: "Understand how a free market works and restrain one's tendency to meddle...
More than 200,000 people were packed into St. Peter's Square when Karol Cardinal Wojtyla, 58, Archbishop of Cracow, received the ceremonial vestment as the 263rd successor to St. Peter and spiritual leader of some 700 million Roman Catholics. As the Cardinals of the church filed forward to pay him homage, he spoke warmly, and often at length, with each, disregarding the presence of television cameras. The most electric moment came when Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski knelt to kiss the papal ring. John Paul lifted his stern old mentor to his feet, embraced him, then kissed the Polish...