Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back to Work. When Bell departs at month's end-by which time the $3.4 billion foreign aid program for 1967 should be well on its way to enactment-he will have the satisfaction of leaving a hand-picked successor in his place: William S. Gaud Jr., 58, who has been AID'S deputy administrator since 1964. A Yale-educated lawyer, Gaud (pronounced Gowd) began his public service as assistant corporation counsel for New York City under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who thought Gaud was qualified to become mayor himself some day. An army colonel in charge of lend...
...eyes of the world," George Romney told a Cleveland audience last week, the U.S. has become "the practical successor of 19th century white colonialism. Our motives were good, but we fell into the ancient trap of rich and powerful men and nations. We relied too heavily on the material fruits of our progress. Great as our power is, we cannot by ourselves be a police force everywhere...
...electrical-equipment factories, then stalked through Akademgorodok, a seven-year-old academic city of 37,000, which gave him the opportunity to strike again on the anvil of Franco-Russian cultural rapprochement. "How can one forget," he said, "that the great academy I am visiting today is the successor of one founded by Peter the Great in 1725? Later, the same drive that inspired Czar Peter carried you to Siberia, to discover great riches: oil, gas, metals. And to construct new cities. Let Soviet and French science unite for the progress of man. as Russia and France unite...
When asked whether his successor, U. Alexis Johnson, had been chosen to please the Japanese conservative business interests, Reischauer replies that he doubts Ambassador Johnson will devote any more time to trade negotiation than he did. Reischauer, however, does admit that the conservatives and businessmen in Japan were deeply concerned when he was first appointed. He attributes this anxiety to the "head-in-the-clouds image as a professor" which preceded him. The Japanese businessman's relations with the intellectuals are even more tenuous than they are in this country, Reischauer says...
...came as a stunning blow to the Reds. Moro's men were quick to boast that the outcome proved the worth of the Centra Sinistra, the ruling center-left coalition created largely for the purpose of isolating the Commu nists. It also reflected the absence of an effective successor to the late Communist Party boss Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's growing affluence, and the increasing moderation of Italian voters...