Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...burden than a joy. He fueled such discussion years ago by visiting the tomb of the reluctant Pope Celestine V, who abdicated the papacy.* Moreover, Paul revealed his attitudes on the aging when he de - creed that cardinals who reach age 80 are too old to vote on his successor - and that bishops who lead dioceses must submit resignations...
Speculation cannot be limited to these three. All are known as administrators, and in the pendulum philosophy of many cardinals, Paul's successor should exhibit a pastoral style, not unlike that of Pope John XXIII. Such an approach, they feel, might provide a far more accessible papacy and a welcome father figure for the world's 710 million Roman Catholics...
...financial source said last week O'Brien was Champion's chosen successor. Putnam yesterday said that he knew of no official support for O'Brien on Champion's part but said he guesses "Champion would approve. O'Brien had been his right-hand deputy...
...fact, Lance had violated those standards in private life, and Carter was invoking both a protective double standard and an unpresidential bit of sentimentality in refusing to say so. Repeatedly the President praised Lance as "a good and honest man," and, not making the selection of a successor at OMB any easier, predicted that no one could be found who would be "as competent, as strong, as decent and as close to me as a friend and adviser as he has been...
...room Playboy mansion in Chicago up for sale (asking price: $2.5 million) and moved to a 29-room Xanadu in Beverly Hills; Daniels flies out every other week to brief him, but otherwise they rarely confer on day-to-day operations. There is talk of an eventual successor to Hef as chief. One candidate for the title: his daughter Christie, 24, who is now concentrating on new magazine development and presumably one day will wind up owning a big chunk of Hefner's 72% of Playboy stock, at present worth $48 million...