Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beginning of the end for Hoffa came in 1971, when President Nixon commuted his 13-year sentence in Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary for jury tampering. Once free, Hoffa set out to regain control of the union from Frank Fitzsimmons, his hand-picked successor. But Fitzsimmons had come to enjoy the power and perks and had no intention of stepping down. The mobsters, who had been flourishing during Fitzsimmons' genially relaxed reign-joining various regional Teamster bosses in lucrative loan sharking, pension-fund frauds, sweetheart contracts, management-union kickback deals and other rackets-did not want Hoffa back either. They feared...
...Betamax a replay of her first triumph unwinds in glorious technicolor. The camera zooms in on pink fingernails fluttering near pale skin as her face crumples with joy and disbelief. The weepy, departing queen struggles to fix the crown on her successor's head. As a recorded chorus serenades, "She's a miracle, she could be Miss America. . . the one that we ado-o-o-re," the winner grips her scepter and hurtles toward the runway at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...
Burns was wooed to the Lazard firm by Andre Meyer, 80, the firm's longtime senior partner and chief deal maker who retired, at least formally, late last year. But he and his successor, Michel David-Weill, 45, a French-born, fourth-generation member of the founding Lazard family, have scored other recent recruiting coups. Three weeks before the Burns announcement, Lazard startled the club by world of New York investment banking by poaching four senior men from a much larger rival, Lehman Brothers Kuhn Loeb. Among them was James Glanville, 55, a Lehman managing director...
...fourth wife, Mama Ngina, 48, multiplied enormously. Together they controlled Nairobi's lucrative gambling casino, plus coffee and sisal plantations, manufacturing concerns, downtown office buildings and coastal resorts. His government's reputation was further damaged by the political murders of Planning Minister Tom Mboya, once regarded as a possible successor to Kenyatta, and Kikuyu dissident Politician Josiah M. Kariuki. Both men died under circumstances that have never been fully explained...
Whenever Meany steps down?his current term runs until 1979, when he will be 85?his successor is just about certain to be AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland, 56. Kirkland has a reputation as both an intellectual and a pragmatist. He vows that labor's political support in this fall's mid-term elections will be determined by how legislators voted on the labor-reform bill, rather than going blindly to Democrats. For example, in Illinois the AFL-CIO for the first time will aid the re-election campaign of Republican Senator Charles Percy, who voted...