Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert P. Williford, 64, who retired last August as the $64,650-a-year vice chairman of Hilton Hotels Corp. (1963 sales: $226 million), was elected the surprise successor to Conrad N. Hilton, 78, as president and chief executive officer. Hilton stepped aside (he remains chairman) only because the SEC and the New York Stock Exchange insisted on separate executives when the company recently spun off its more profitable overseas operations into a separate Hilton International Co. that accounted for $60.3 million of Hilton's 1963 sales. Hilton will continue to head the international branch. Texas-born Bob Williford...
More Fanfare. His successor as Premier, Aleksei Kosygin, delivered the state-of-the-Soviet-Union speech in 80 minutes, unrelieved by Khrushchevian corn pone, invective or grandiloquence...
...with everyone gradually calming down about the revelations of Sarit's equally acquisitive financial dealings (TIME, July 17), his successor, avuncular General Thanom Kittikachorn, felt free to revive the competitions. The choice of the new Miss Thailand was almost painfully pure, with a member of the royal family sitting on the jury and each contestant's moral background under scrutiny-several girls of dubious vocation were hurriedly disqualified...
...insurance industry, introducing such firsts as double indemnity and automobile insurance. Last week Travelers did some internal reshaping. Into its vacant chairman's seat moved erudite President J. (for John) Doyle DeWitt, 62, to be replaced as president by Executive Vice President Sterling T. Tooker, 51, the likely successor as chief executive when DeWitt retires three years from...
Beyond this, nearly a dozen other important economic posts in Washington will soon change hands. At Treasury, a major turnover is in the offing. Aside from Roosa's job, a successor is still to be named for Henry Fowler, who last spring quit as the second-ranking Under Secretary. The department's No. 4 man. General Counsel G. D'Andelot Belin, intends to return soon to his Boston law practice. And Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon has reportedly served notice that he intends to resign by next July...