Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once Moyers is gone, who-if anyone-will become the new primus"? Actually, it may take months for a successor to surface. When he does, he will almost certainly be a versatile, nimble-witted "generalist" rather than a narrow specialist. Johnson, as one aide puts it, likes men who can "go where the ball is." They serve him as a headquarters staff, husbanding his time and refining ideas for his easier digestion...
...already made provision for the transfer of power to his oldest son and political heir: Chiang Ching-kuo, 56, Taiwan's Defense Minister. Late last month, at the annual meeting of the party's Central Committee, 600 KMT delegates voted Chiang-and hence his successor-the right to appoint a special national security council with sweeping emergency powers. Such a council would act as a built-in power structure, waiting only for the day when either Chiang or Ching-kuo might decide to activate...
Ironsi's reinterment was only one of the delicate matters that have lately been agreed on by his successor, Lieut. Colonel Yakubu Gowon, and Eastern Military Governor Odumegwu Ojukwu, an Ibo and the second most powerful man in Nigeria. At a retreat near Accra in Ghana-it was their first meeting since Gowon's July 29 coup-the Nigerian chiefs earlier this month agreed to start mending the broken fabric of national unity with a week of mourning. For two days, the whole nation flew its flags half-mast for Ironsi. For the next three-in the North...
...dismissal of Clark Kerr as president of the University of California was a rude rebuff to an excellent administrator. In eight years, he helped build the university into the strongest public university in the country. His departure solves nothing, for no reputable successor is likely to agree to replace him until many Californians, particularly Governor Reagan, outgrow their belief that the state can have an excellent educational system and not collect taxes...
...university's era of innovation began under the Rev. Vincent T. O'Keefe, who left the presidency in 1965 to serve as a Jesuit executive in Rome, and is being enthusiastically carried on by his successor, Father Leo McLaughlin, 54. A onetime dean of Fordham College who has a doctorate of letters from the University of Paris, Jesuit McLaughlin wants Fordham to achieve "true greatness in action," even by Ivy League standards. While Fordham will always retain "the distinctive attributes of a Catholic university," he is confident that it can "move into the mainstream" of U.S. education...