Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arthur Goldberg had talked so often of resigning as Ambassador to the United Nations that when he actually did it last week, apparently because he would be bypassed in any negotiations with North Viet Nam, there was no surprise left. But the choice of his successor was surprising-until it was analyzed...
Martin Luther King's final dream was a mighty Poor People's March on Washington, originally scheduled to begin late last month. The immensely detailed logistical preparations for the march continued despite King's assassination. This week his successor, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, will lead a vanguard of 100 march leaders into the capital, starting what one aide called "the greatest nonviolent demonstration since Gandhi's salt march...
...Ralph Abernathy, successor to King as president of the SCLC, will be in Boston May 9 to launch the northeastern caravan...
...increasingly irritated local establishment. While many white Memphians initially supported Loeb's stand, they soon fretted over their city's fading image and the threat of more Negro boycotts and street violence. Just before the strike's end last week, King's successor, the Rev. Ralph D. Abernathy, played on their fears by promising to treat Memphis to "the most militant nonviolent steps ever taken...
Fellows are theoretically appointed for life, but there is an unwritten rule that they retire at 70. Because Lamont was the Senior Fellow of the Corporation, the Corporation was, in fact, discussing the question of his successor while he was still alive, Pusey said...