Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Otto's successor will be Henry Grunwald. Henry is up from copy boy, and has some other distinctions as well. He has written in many departments of TIME (starting in Foreign News in 1945), edited most of them, and been the launching editor for several new departments, including Essay. He became a senior editor in 1951 and an assistant managing editor in 1966. He has won wide respect among Time Inc. editors for freshness of phrase and idea, and a remarkable intellectual depth and versatility...
...Where's Dr. King? Wake up, Dr. King!' These white folks killed the dreamer, but we're gonna show these white folks what become of the dream. The poor people are marching to challenge the Pharaoh." Led by Williams and the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, 42, successor to Martin Luther King, the poverty pilgrims wound through back-country roads in buses, battered cars and behind farm wagons drawn by mules named Stennis and Eastland, George Wallace and Jim Clark (for the former Selma, Ala., sheriff who bloodied many a black head during earlier civil rights marches...
WHEN President Pusey retires in a few years, the Corporation will nominate a successor, and the Board of Overseers will be responsible for accepting or rejecting the appointment...
McNamara, before leaving the Cabinet, recommended Vance as his successor, and the President probably agreed with the choice. But last summer Vance was forced to abandon his twelve-hour work days at the Pentagon because of an irksome back ailment. He returned to law practice in Manhattan, although repeated summonses to Washington for troubleshooting missions scarcely left him time for his legal career. The grueling Paris negotiations will tax Vance's health even more severely than his previous assignments. Despite the orthopedic brace he wears, his back is often so painful that he cannot bend to tie his shoelaces...
...Gheorghiu-Dej, who died in 1965, as a Stalinist who used terror to keep in power in the 1950s. The commission charged his regime with handing down sentences without trials, of murders, abusive arrests, "rude fakes and transgression of the most elementary rules of law." Thus, Dej's successor as party boss, Nicolae Ceausescu, paved the way for a purge of the late Dej's Stalinist cronies. The first to go was a onetime Ceausescu rival, ex-Police Chief Alexandru Draghici, who was purged from the party Presidium and from his post as Deputy Premier...