Word: successor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...museum's worth of Early American furniture, sweeping views from a vast eighth-floor terrace, and a chamber that can take 200 for sitdown dinner. It is not the pay and the perks, however, which have hopeful Democrats lining up two abreast to be Henry Kissinger's successor. The office of U.S. Secretary of State is probably the most powerful appointive office in the world. And there were moments when Dr. Kissinger seemed to be making it the most powerful office of any sort, appointive, elective, hereditary or whatever...
...books, the new felony penalties have never been successfully invoked. More to Kauper's credit has been the rise in public awareness of antitrust and its relation to consumer wellbeing. Says one department official: "There is now a constituency for antitrust." Unfortunately for Kauper's successor, who may be Cornell University Law Professor Donald Baker, a former Kauper aide, that constituency does not seem to include the White House...
...there and became a protégé of Togliatti. By the age of 23, Berlinguer had won a seat on the party's central committee and been tabbed as a comer; after that, he gradually worked his way to the top until he succeeded Togliatti's successor, the aging and ill Luigi Longo, in 1972. Unlike Togliatti, who lived openly with a mistress, Berlinguer fits the classic Italian middle-class image of a good family man with three children whom he zealously guards from publicity...
Getty's three living sons have been involved in the business and could be in the running for important roles; some Getty watchers speculate that J.P.'s successor as Getty Oil president might be Norris Bramlett, 59, Getty's administrative assistant since 1968. Most of Getty's fortune, which he kept mainly in Getty Oil stock, will apparently be given to charities, under a will said to have been prepared years ago. Unlike Howard Hughes, Jean Paul Getty was surely too careful to leave the future of his creation to chance and the courts...
...from 1935 to 1968 almost no new equipment was installed. As late as 1962, the French Secretary of State for Posts and Telecommunications blithely dismissed the phone as a "gimmick." Charles de Gaulle would not even tolerate a telephone in his presidential office at the Elysée. His successor, Georges Pompidou, had a single phone on a side table but rarely used it; one of Pompidou's aides reportedly got only three calls from him in nine years...