Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admired, Harvard's Graduate School of Education has honed some of the country's sharpest schoolmasters. It is nonetheless an administrative nightmare, with its 80 teachers and 700 students scattered all over Cambridge, some in ancient wooden houses. For 15 months the school has lacked a successor to ex-Dean Francis Keppel, who quit to become U.S. Commissioner of Education. And the school needs money. Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey recently warned that next year it may be $500,000 in the red. Harvard abhors fiscally unbalanced deans, mused Pusey, who has been serving as Education...
Many of the far-out theories seem far from fact, but the All is nevertheless an extraordinary airplane, a technical generation ahead of any of its competitors. Lockheed's famed designer Clarence L. ("Kelly") Johnson started building the ship in 1959 as a successor to the U-2 high-altitude reconnaissance plane. Though it was the altitude champ of its day, the U-2 flew so slowly (500 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft.) that the Russians were eventually able to shoot one down. The All was specifically designed to fly high enough and fast enough to avoid trouble...
...Communists, won the confidence of business, and embarked on a successful program of social and economic reform. This week, as Venezuela's first president in 134 years to complete his term, Betancourt will turn over the red, blue and yellow sash of office to a freely elected successor: Raul Leoni, 57, a member of his own Acción Democrática Party. Yet Leoni has lost his first political battle before he even begins, and Venezuela seems headed for trouble...
...matter of history by this time, however, that during the terms of Arevalo and his successor Jacobo Arbenz, Communism rose to ascendency. Finally in 1954 a C.I.A.-inspired invasion overthrew Arbenz, and rightist democratic regimes followed...
...Chicago, Lutheran church leaders drew up a draft constitution for a new cooperative service agency to replace the present National Lutheran Council. Founded in 1918, the council now serves the Lutheran Church in America (3,100,000 members) and the American Lutheran Church (2,300,000). Its proposed successor would bring in two conservative bodies that have long been wary of cooperating: the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (2,500,000) and the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (20,000). At Missouri's insistence, the new agency will have a strong division for theological studies, which could help resolve some...