Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From 1950 to 1961 he was chief political officer for Ho's army in Hanoi; in 1964 he was sent to South Viet Nam, where he had since directed, with considerable craft and imagination, all Communist efforts against the Allies. The Communists will not announce Thanh's successor, of course, but intelligence men will be watching carefully for signs of his appearance in the next few months...
...Arabs' empire failed because they lacked the skill of political synthesis. In conquered territory, Arab rulers hewed to the Koran and tended to let the conquered govern themselves. Mohammed designated no successor (caliph); his squabbling heirs split Islam into rival sects. For a time, independent Moslem states retained Mohammed's vigor. While Europe slept, great Arab universities flourished in Cordova, Baghdad and Cairo; in Spain, the Arab philosopher Averroes revitalized Aristotle. After the death of the Caliph Harun al-Rashid in 809, the Baghdad caliphate plunged into civil war; in succeeding centuries, marauding Mongols poured into the Arab...
...somewhat enigmatic and unpopular figure to American Catholics. There were few expressions of regret when Rome announced that Vagnozzi, who last month was named a cardinal by Pope Paul VI, would become a member of the Vatican's Consistorial and Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs Congregations. His successor is Archbishop Luigi Raimondi, currently apostolic delegate to Mexico...
...engineer, explains that she conceived of it because "people are too alienated. In the booth they can get information about themselves." She would like to have the Minuphone mass-produced and installed in streets and parks. Neither former New York City Parks Commissioner Thomas P. F. Hoving nor his successor, August Heckscher, has so far shown any interest; considering the Parks Department's well-known fondness for hippy-go-lucky happenings, there's always hope...
Just 20 years before, known to the world as Leon Trotsky, he had been the second most powerful man in Soviet Russia and Lenin's obvious successor. At the age of 26 Trotsky had been the undisputed leader of the abortive revolution of 1905. In 1917 he returned to Russia from exile and he planned and led the successful Bolshevik insurrection of October. He served as Commissar of Foreign Affairs and than as Commissar of War. He created the Red Army and he defeated the forces of the counter-revolution in Russia's three year Civil...