Word: successors
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...other clues. No professional military men were elevated to full membership on the Central Committee, thus indicating that the army has only limited pull with the new leadership. By contrast, one of eight new men elected to full Central Committee membership was Vladimir Semichastny, who is Shelepin's successor as head of the secret police. This promotion, coming on top of Shelepin's own, suggested to some Kremlinologists that a new era of the cop may be starting in Russia. The new rulers, though in favor of Khrushchevian "peaceful coexistence" and economic liberalism, are evidently prepared to reinstate...
Brazilians know Lacerda as a politician in perpetual motion, the man whose unceasing attacks forced Jãnio Quadros to resign and focused opposition on his successor, the Leftist João Goulart. He is a hard man to feel neutral about. In blazing headlines around the country, pro-Lacerda papers took up the cudgels for his "most noble civic and moral propositions." Anti-Lacerda papers vilified him as a "murderer" and "torturer." As he neared Rio last week, political enemies narrowly missed in an attempt to dynamite his train. Brazil's three other major political parties hastily announced...
Propped up in bed in a Tokyo hospital, retiring Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, recovering from a throat tumor, took up writing brush and rice paper. At the plea of his hopelessly deadlocked party, he stroked off a note choosing his own successor. Two hours later, Eisako Sato, 63, the dynamo of five former Cabinets, became the tenth Prime Minister of postwar Japan-and, all but inevitably, a man destined to guide his nation along a new course, for, after 19 years of penance, Asia's only fully industrialized country seems about to reclaim its place as a world power...
Rock modestly agrees, and decides not to upset his featherheaded fern. Instead, he thoughtfully attempts to select a successor who can provide for the poor widow. Inspired by his buddy's "nobility," Tony dashes off an advance draft of a funeral eulogy: "They needed a good sport in heaven." But the little woman is confused; she figures that Rock is fixing her up with a slimy oilionaire in order to justify an affair of his own. To set her straight, Rock is forced to confess his condition. To set him straight, Doris produces a memorable wifely weirdie. "Promise...
...once asked him in a long private talk at Hyannis Port what he wanted to have achieved by the time he rode down Pennsylvania Avenue with his successor. He looked at me as if I were a dreaming child. I tried again: did he not feel the need of some goal to help guide his day-to-day decisions and priorities? Again, a ghastly pause. It was only when I turned the question to immediate, tangible problems that he seized the point and rolled off a torrent of statistics about the difficulty of organizing nations at different levels of economic...