Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Walker, once executive director of the S.C.L.C. and now aide to Nelson Rockefeller, "he would organize things, like appointing a cleanup detail. Martin would never go to jail without him." Abernathy was jailed 19 times with his leader. In appreciation of his fidelity, King named Abernathy as his successor three years...
...ally in the Pacific. In recent years that tie was immensely strengthened by close personal rapport between President Johnson and Prime Minister Harold Holt. When Holt drowned in the surf off Portsea last December, much of the intuitive understanding between Washington and Canberra died with him. Holt's successor, John Grey Gorton, has been so beset by doubts about the durability of the U.S. commitment to Asia that Australia is considering a complete overhaul of its own defense and foreign policies...
...annual shareholders meeting, barely 24 hours after the airline's other top brass first got the word themselves, he casually dropped the news at the end of a 45-minute speech on company finances. When 62-year-old President Harold E. Gray, his hand-picked successor as Pan Am's chairman and chief executive officer, began to praise him, Trippe abruptly ruled him out of order. Sighed Gray: "I seldom defy the boss...
Last week his successor, Olivier Long, 53, moved into Le Bocage, the 150-year-old lakeside villa set in the greenery of a Geneva suburb that serves as head quarters for GATT and its small professional staff of 60. A native of Geneva and Switzerland's suave Ambassador to the Court of St. James's since 1966, Long brings a portfolio of experience that he collected during six years as head of the Swiss delegation to the Outer Seven...
...Harvard Sports Information said it had not received word of Andersen's resignation and had no plans for choosing a successor...