Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With the session drawing to a close, the 90th Congress could be faulted for having broken little fresh ground in the areas of social and ban reform. Nonetheless the 90th did have a tough act to follow. The 89th had all but swept the legislative agenda clean-its successor, with 50 more Republicans in its ranks as a result of the 1966 elections, was billed as the "stop, look and listen" Congress. Despite its determination to consolidate past gains, the 90th could boast some triumphs of its own. The pluses...
...issued by the junta was signed by the chiefs of all three Peruvian military services. Within hours after Belaúnde's departure, General Juan Velasco Alvarado, the 58-year-old army commander and president of Peru's Joint Chiefs of Staff, took the oath as his successor before a candlelit crucifix in the presidential palace...
Indeed it was, for good and ill. Student demonstrations in 1965 forced the ouster of Prime Minister Mohammed Yusuf, and two years later Yusuf's successor was forced to depart because of similar pressures. Even more disturbing was the indication that two leftist groups (one pro-Peking, the other influenced by Moscow) had played a role in organizing the unrest. Communism has had little or no appeal for the mass of Afghans, but the signs of even slight influence caused the government to tighten up a bill to allow the creation of political parties so as to exclude...
When Franklin Murphy decided to step down as chancellor of U.C.L.A., the California board of regents could have followed the normal practice in finding a successor: appoint an acting president, sound out candidates, eventually settle on a president who had made a name elsewhere. Instead, the regents satisfied themselves, faculty and students by staying on campus. Early this month, Charles E. Young, U.C.L.A.'s vice chancellor, officially took charge of the 28,000-student campus. Only eight years out of graduate school, Young is, at 36, the nation's youngest head of a major university...
...Metcalf. In 1959, he was hired as a staff assistant to Clark Kerr, then president of the University of California. One year later, Franklin Murphy lured him to U.C.L.A. as his personal assistant, eventually got him promoted to assistant chancellor and began to groom him as a potential successor. While Murphy planned and directed U.C.L.A.'s massive expansion program-a nearly doubled enrollment and $174 million worth of new construction since 1960-Young took charge of the campus' daily operations, including most administration dealings with students...