Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odds are all against him. Lieutenant Governor Ray Shafer, 48, hand-picked successor of outgoing Governor William Scranton, won the Republican nomination with only a token (17%) challenge from Perennial Candidate Harold Stassen, can expect a united party behind him in November. Just to show how united and strong that party was-and to prevent a nonorganization man from sneaking in-Republican leaders asked and received a winning vote for Walter Alessandroni, the party's candidate for Lieutenant Governor who was killed in a plane crash ten days before the election...
Packing a Lunch. Under Sarit's successor, Premier Thanom Kittikachorn, Bhumibol is more than ever the throne behind the power. He and Sirikit, working as a ceremonial team with all the pageantry that Thais love, take every opportunity to identify themselves with Thailand and its progress. Whether it be the dedication of a new dam or highway, the ancient ceremony of the first spring plowing, or the certification of a newly found royal white elephant (an auspicious omen in Thai mythology), Bhumibol uses each event to emphasize the rich heritage and unity of his nation. (One discontinued tradition: feeding...
Still, he finds "all the talk about the profit side" a little boring. All he really wants to do, he says, is sing. When his friend Frank Clement, the Governor of Tennessee, recently tried to persuade him to run as his successor in the statehouse, Arnold turned him down. "They tell me I would win," he explains, "but then I wouldn't be able to sing. And if that happened, then I just wouldn't be me any more...
Nehru's successor, the late Lal Bahadur Shastri, moved toward changing that policy. India's food crisis, he decided, was just too terrible to let socialist doctrine stand in the way of solution. At his recommendation, an agricultural program was adopted last December that, among other things, allows foreign firms to build and operate their own fertilizer plants-and set their own prices. After Shastri died, the new Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter, was ultimately convinced of the program's necessity. Despite some indigenous political sniping, she has strongly sponsored it since. Recognizing...
...taken all of its 580,000 students off double sessions for the first time in this century, Willis by his highhandedness has gradually earned the disapproval of most of Chicago. Last week, as Willis' durable defender, the Chicago Tribune, turned against him, the school board named his successor...