Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still surround him in high government posts. Outside the country, powerful exiles like Independence Hero Mohammed Boudiaf are threatening to organize subversion against him. Ben Bella, who could well be the leader of such a revolt, is regularly shifted from prison to prison by special order of his nervous successor...
...years ago, Chairman Eppert, who started at Burroughs as a shipping clerk 45 years ago, began looking for a successor, found him in Ray W. Macdonald, head of the company's international sales. Under Macdonald, the company's overseas operations grew to equal its domestic organization. Macdonald, now 54, was appointed president last January, will succeed Eppert as chief executive officer Feb. 1. His expectation: annual sales of $1 billion by the early 1970s...
...successor to a twelve-year incumbent has to live up to great expectations. And Winthrop, as a Republican, a reformer, and above all a Rockefeller, has raised hopes high. Indeed, his party's future in the state will depend heavily on his performance in office. However, as North Little Rock's Democratic Mayor Laman points out: "He has a really deep desire to help this state, to leave his mark on it. Arkansas can't give him one thing he hasn't already...
Some years ago, a coolness arose between Franco and Don Juan, and some observers have concluded from this that Franco prefers his successor to be Don Juan's son, Prince Juan Carlos, 28, who lives in Madrid. But Juan Carlos cannot succeed to the throne until he is 30, has said that he will not take it as long as his father is available and, in any case, has not made much of an impression at the state functions he has been trotted...
...Southerner who believes discrimination is wrong can take a strong stand and become a martyr, but he must consider the consequences of his defeat, and the possibility that his successor might be an extreme segregationist, McCarthy added...