Word: successors
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...scholarship and aesthetic judgment Coolidge values so highly can thrive in this quietude. But whether the impact of this intellectual activity may be obscured, whether the intelligent decisions may lose the impact they have traditionally had in an age when one has to scream to be heard, Coolidge's successor must decide
...Conant's successor, Nathan Pusey, Harvard acquired a president who by background was concerned more with undergraduate education than with speaking tours. The appointment of McGeorge Bundy as dean--a candidate apparently urged upon Pusey by the outgoing Buck--made it difficult for the new president to influence College matters. Fund drives and other external enterprises, suited primarily to presidential attention, also kept Pusey form taking a close hand in the College...
Since President Johnson restricted bombing to the area south of the 19th parallel, surveillance missions above the line have been flown by the successor to the U2, the supersecret SR-71, double-delta-winged, 2,000-m.p.h. manned missile. Boring ahead faster than a rifle bullet, it takes pictures of astonishing clarity from as high as 80,000 feet. Over the panhandle and Laos, most of the monitoring is the task of the 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing flying out of Udorn in northern Thailand. Its droop-nosed RF-4C Phantoms, unarmed and unescorted, shoot up to a cumulative seven miles...
...other politicians, has a slightly tarnished "old pol" image among French voters. Similarly, the candidates from the right?Pompidou, Giscard d'Estaing?for the moment, at least, seem to have little appeal to French voters. The man that some politicians in Paris were mentioning last week as a possible successor to De Gaulle is a vintage statesman who served well in some of the most dif ficult moments of the Fourth Republic: Pierre Mendès-France...
Dean Ford, who will appoint Trottenberg's successor at Harvard, was not available last night to say when the appointment might be made. However, there has been growing speculation in the last month that Ford may divide the functions Trottenberg handled and appoint two new Assistant Deans...