Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sensing victory for their party in November, and outraged by reports that Warren is retiring so that Johnson will be able to choose his successor, 19 Republican Senators signed a petition that would deny the President the right to put anybody at all on the court during the remainder of his term. "At the present time," said Griffin, who brings considerable skills as a political organizer to the G.O.P. rebellion, "the American people are in the process of choosing a new government. By their votes in November the people will designate new leadership and new direction for our nation...
...past, and Lyndon Johnson has placed himself in the past tense. His Government juggernaut is grinding perceptibly to a halt. In one department after another, planning for the future has all but stopped, and underlings are busying themselves with housekeeping chores while they await Johnson's successor. "We are," said a sub-Cabinet man, "looking after personnel matters." Personal matters, too. The best Johnson men are being lured away by industry and academe. Of 14 young lawyers in one group, five have already made plans to leave. Somnolent is the word for the State Department, where one official declared...
...order to illustrate how anachronistic Ulbricht's restrictions are. In today's relaxing Europe, they also favor diplomatic recognition of East Germany in hopes that even a slight reduction in tensions there might help to create a situation in which the 74-year-old Ulbricht's successor, or perhaps his successor's successor, might turn out to be an East German Alexander...
Spot of Tennis. But conspicuously on hand was Richard King Mellon, who for the past 35 years has been the operative head of the empire. At 69, he is about to retire, and it is perhaps symbolic that there is no Mellon in sight as his successor. Of his two sons, one is pursuing a career in oceanography. The other, though he is now serving an apprenticeship in the family bank, is only 26. Paul's only son is making a career in city planning. So, when Richard King Mellon finally steps down, the Mellon empire will...
...successor, General Creighton W. Abrams Jr., 53, a hard-cussing, cigar-chomping specialist in tank warfare, takes over the superb American military machine Westmoreland did so much to fashion in Viet Nam and is bringing in new generals to give it new directions. "Abe is by nature a slugger and a killer," judges one of his military peers. "Westy tends to be a boxer." And after a year spent spurring South Viet Nam's army to action, Abrams is at last able to supply them with the M-16 rifles that Westmoreland requested in 1965 and other modern weaponry...