Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...More than anybody else on campus, the president is expected to be all things to all men-fund raiser, politician, scholar, pressagent, long-range planner, public speaker, banqueteer with a cast-iron digestion. Another problem is that few schools like the idea of a built-in successor. If an outgoing president tries to groom an up-and-coming administrator as a potential heir apparent, says Stanford Graduate Business Dean Ernest Arbuckle, "that can be the kiss of death." Many otherwise qualified professors consider an administrative job as "going over to the enemy"-and claim that they can make more money...
Less than Perfect. Nordhoff is leaving Volkswagen because he turned 68 in January, an age, he said last week, when "it is not only customary but even a compelling need to think in time about one's successor." The years, unfortunately, have overtaken him at a moment when Volkswagen-like the Wirtschaftswunder itself-is performing at less than capacity...
...dominated, VW is getting serious competition from General Motors' Opel and the German Ford. Nordhoff has been fighting the pinch with stepped-up exports and a new, cheaper ($1,121) 41 h.p. Model 1200 that he christened Wirt-schaftskrise Kafer, or "economic crisis beetle." With all that, his successor, Kurt Lotz, 54, will have plenty of problems...
...fell out over a small computer company in which he had invested to compete with U.S. computer makers, only to have it lose money. Lotz, as a result, decided to go job hunting. Volkswagen's directors offered him the $250,000-a-year post as Nordhoff's successor...
...where do you look to find a successor? One theory is that pennants are won by the men up the middle. But Cleveland's Joe Azcue is the league's only catcher to hit above .256 last year and major league catching has been universally weak since the glory days of Yogi Berra, Roy Campanella, Wes Westrum, and Del Crandall. Around the Keystone, the league's best combinations belong to California (Fregosi-Knoop) and Kansas City (Campaneris-Green). How many people could match Gil, Oyler, Johnson, Carew, and Adair with the pennant contender for which each is starting second baseman...