Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reason is simple: nobody knew what to say. Two of the favorites, Successor and Ruken, never got near enough to smell the roses. And Damascus, the 8-to-5 top choice who had been touted enthusiastically by the professional handicappers since last December, just managed to hang on for third money with the best jockey in the business whipping his flank...
LANGUAGE AND SILENCE, by George Steiner. At 38, Steiner has earned a name as one of the leading U.S. literary critics and a possible successor to Edmund Wilson. This collection of eloquent essays shows...
From his record, Proud Clarion hardly belonged in the same field with the likes of Damascus, winner of the Wood Memorial and this year's 8-to-5 Derby favorite, or with Ruken (2 to 1), winner of the Santa Anita Derby, or Successor (4 to 1), last year's two-year-old champion and the biggest money winner in the field, with $445,829 in total earnings. Proud Clarion, in fact, had never even won a stakes race. As a twoyear-old, he had earned a paltry $805 finishing third in one out of three starts. This...
Sanders described his successor, Lester Maddox as "very moderate and a pleasant surprise" on the race issue. He warned, however, that a change in Maddox's position might come this summer if there are demonstrations or racial conflicts in Atlanta...
...agreed not to oppose the President in the commission's formal recommendations, but it insisted on a statement that electronic bugging by police is necessary to fight organized crime. Jawarski, a personal friend of Johnson, had up to that time been frequently advanced by the press as a possible successor to former Attorney General Katzenbach...