Word: successors
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Doermann will work with Gordon P. Gillis, the Dean's financial assistant, as his prospective successor. In the new position, Doermann will study the University's financial affairs and project medium-range expenditures for the College. He will also begin a study of admissions at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, investigating the colleges and backgrounds of recent years. He will be succeeded by David K. Smith '52 assistant director of admissions and freshmen scholarship candidates...
...seem early to be counting convention votes and foolish to ignore a very canny President's ability to name his Vice-President as successor. (After all, even Eisenhower could do that.) But as a lame duck, Lyndon Johnson will find his political capital gravely diminished. He will not be able to play his 1964 trump, for there is no reason whatever to believe that Hubert Humphrey in 1972 will have anything like the popular support...
Peking is not only unrealistic about us. Chairman Mao even thinks of himself as the successor to Marx, Lenin and Stalin, whereas in actual fact, as the ruler of China, he is much more a successor of the emperors who ruled at Peking until 1912 when Mao was already eighteen years of age. To hear the Peking leaders talk talk you would think they were an off-shot of European Socialism. Actually the problems they face and the methods they use are in large part inherited from Chinese history...
...Virginia, former State Senator Armistead L. Boothe announced his candidacy in the Democratic primary against Senator Harry F. ("Little Harry") Byrd Jr., 51, appointed last fall as interim successor to his aging father. An eloquent Alexandria attorney and former Rhodes Scholar, Boothe, 58, won 45% of the Old Dominion's Democratic primary vote in an unsuccessful 1961 try for the lieutenant-governorship, in 1964 supported Lyndon Johnson, while the Byrds followed a policy of "golden silence." Harry Jr.'s situation is further complicated by the fact that it is a regular election year for Virginia's other...
...appointed director. The decision was made, says one board member, partly because "Julius was the only man in the place who knew where all the scenery was buried." Just as compelling was a petition from the company's musicians and singers recommending Rudel as Leinsdorf's successor...