Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...league's leadership, reducing the party's presidium from 48 to 24 members and confirming Slovene Stane Dolanc, 52, as its secretary. Thus Dolanc was reappointed as a member of Tito's inner circle of advisers, and in the long term, he could be a possible successor. In the short term, the front runner for Tito's title as President is Edvard Kardelj, 68, preeminent among eight members of Yugoslavia's collective state presidency and the party's chief theoretician. Kardelj, however, is ailing and may be no more than a prospective transitional figure...
...electoral assembly of 1,010, ineluding all parliamentary deputies and senators, along with delegates from Italy's 20 regions, must now select a successor. The vote could indeed run through the summer vacation: Leone, himself a compromise candidate, was elected in 1971 to succeed Giuseppe Saragat after 16 days of voting in which no fewer than 23 ballots were held...
Trouble between father and son is not new. Back in 1972 Herbert yanked Garner Ted off the tube and sent him into exile. Insiders later reported that the son was guilty of adultery. But by 1974 Herbert announced that the returned Garner Ted was his divinely chosen successor, a transfer of power that he likened to King David's handing the reins to Solomon (I Chronicles: 28). Angry schism ensued. Dissidents charged that Garner Ted had not properly repented his adulteries, adding that other church sinners had not been treated so forgivingly...
Times have changed. Now Herbert's closest aide and spokesman is Lawyer Stanley Rader, himself recently sidelined and now back in power. Rader denies that Herbert ever designated Garner Ted as his successor. In a florid churchwide encyclical, the father explains the sudden ouster by accusing his son of perfidy: "I derived my authority from the living CHRIST. You derived what you had from me, and then used it totally CONTRARY to THE WAY Christ...
...delighted to announce that Davidson's successor is John A. Meyers, who for the past six years has been publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED. A native of Illinois with a B.A. from. Michigan State's School of Journalism, Meyers served with distinction as a U.S. Marine in the Korean War. His 23-year career with Time Inc. has included posts as TIME'S associate publisher and advertising sales director, as well as the one he will continue to hold as a vice president of the company. A man of modesty and personal warmth who hastens to introduce himself...