Word: successors
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Chancellor's successor, said USIA director Leonard Marks, will be from the same bracket-"someone who has been earning in excess of $75,000 in broadcasting and is an outstanding newsman known throughout the nation." Marks's coyness produced inevitable speculation that he might mean CBS's Eric Sevareid or Charles Collingwood, NBC's Nancy Dickerson or ABC's Howard K. Smith. Likeliest choice, however, is John Charles Daly, 53, onetime ABC vice president for news and currently the suave moderator of CBS's What's My Line...
...been a leadership fight for the Speaker's chair, and in the ensuing struggle, John Toomey lost the chair of the Ways and Means Committee. Whereas he enjoyed the ear of the former, retired speaker, John F. "Iron Duke" Thompson, he had no c'ose relationship with his successor. Sargeant's bid to remove the remaining vestiges of the veto did not run into opposition from the new leadership in either the House or the Senate...
...Market, Britain's application was intentionally drafted as the simplest possible document, without a single reservation annexed. Despite the delay that De Gaulle can enforce, Britain considers its entry into the Common Market an inevitability; Charles de Gaulle is, after all, 76, and the British reason that his successor must be different, as were the successors of Napoleon I and Napoleon III. The British are so confident that they will eventually join that British leaders are urging farmers and industrialists to begin making preparations and adaptations that will be necessary for the tie-up. The British figure that they...
...Corporation has not yet named his successor, but he has reportedly suggested Mark S. Carroll '50, associate director of the Press...
...specifics of the Press's future are not clear. Even Wilson and the other officers of the Press have no idea who the President and Fellows will select as his successor. Another endless policy debate inside the Press is the question of paperbacks. It has long been the Press's policy to sell paperback rights to other publishers more able to distribute them and eager to pay good advances and royalties, contrary to other university Presses. Harvard's main reason for avoiding the lucrative paperback market is that it doesn't have a large enough staff to handle the extra...