Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most critical decision to come before the World Council of Churches since its founding 16 years ago is the choice of a successor to the Rev. Willem Visser 't Hooft, 64, its omnicompetent general secretary. Last week, meeting in the improbable town of Enugu, Nigeria, the council's 100-member central committee showed its deep concern over the decision by rejecting one officially nominated successor and ordering a search for someone else...
...Goldwater. To rebuild prestige, Wallace is calling for a massive, liberal spending program that would include free textbooks for all public schools, increased teachers' salaries, and a $100 million bond issue for school construction. All that will please most Alabamians, but it will leave Wallace's successor in 1967 with an estimated state deficit of $500 million, compared with $258 million when Wallace himself took office...
...what it thought was a ready puppet in the kingdom's No. 2 Buddhist, the Panchen Lama. The Panchen seemed a perfect choice, since he was born and raised in China and had long coveted his master's post. Mao Tse-tung beamed benevolently as the young successor was given his official title, Acting Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibetan Autonomous Region. The Reds even made him a Deputy in Peking's parliament...
...Nothing succeeds like a successor," jokes U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel, 48. What he means is that he succeeded to his job two years ago, just as his agency was evolving from a onetime statistics-keeping bureau to a major arm of government, now bigger in budget than the departments of Commerce, Interior, Justice or Labor...
...admiral has no intention of keeping his fingers off operations, although he occasionally murmurs something about leaving his $175,000-a-year post in five years or so. When and if that happens, a possible successor is the 40-year-old son of Straus and his wife Margaret, Kenneth Hollister Straus, now a vice president of the New York division. But Straus insists that "it depends on how well Kenny does whether he takes over the company." More likely to succeed is R. H. Macy's president, Wheelock Bingham, 57. In any event, Straus will have a considerable voice...