Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though he does play golf his primary reason for settling there is that a university library will be available. Why is he leaving Glasgow? "I don't want to live next to the University where I've taught for 40 years. I'd get in the way of my successor. Nothing is such a nuisance as an idle colleague...
Brezhnev's successor in the presidency: Anastas Mikoyan, 68, who was plainly due for a rest. Active for three decades as top Soviet foreign trade specialist, the Armenian was in the hospital twice last year, needed a softer job after his recent active period as Khrushchev's troubleshooter abroad...
After a couple of two-year terms of competent but colorless rule, Japan's Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, 64, was supposed by custom to make way for a successor. But when the ruling Liberal-Democratic Party met in Tokyo last week to choose a new president-and hence a new Prime Minister-Ikeda upset tradition by bidding for a third term...
...marshal's estate, Sarit's two sons by a previous wife estimated that their father was worth at least 2.8 billion tickels, or $143 million. That seemed a lot of baht for a career soldier. So, before allowing his estate to be distributed, Sarit's successor, Thanom Kittikachorn, appointed a five-man committee to see if any government funds had lodged in Sarit's pocket...
...most successful businessman, outraging competitors by such novel practices as introducing "price leaders" to attract customers, ordering his salesgirls to don hats and crowd around neglected bargain counters. Before he died in 1934, he had begun establishing branch stores in other Australian cities and had foresightedly picked his successor: Myer's current boss, Arnot ("Harry") Tolley...