Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...court's reprieve will not be wasted-at least not by Hoffa. At week's end he said that he would ask the convention to change the union's bylaws, apparently so that he can name his successor if he is jailed. Moreover, he proclaimed, he is considering organizing professional athletes, particularly football players disgruntled with the huge sums paid to "bonus babies." The team owners may not prove as amenable as, say, truck-fleet owners. Warned William Clay Ford, president of the Detroit Lions: "We can make truck drivers of these players real easy...
...with the chairmanship of the party he rode (or carried) to power, the Christian Democratic Union. Canny old Konrad Adenauer clung to the job even after he stepped down as Chancellor nearly three years ago at the age of 87, and has used the post to embarrass his rotund successor with anti-Erhard maneuverings inside the party. Last month, Adenauer decided at last to give up the C.D.U. chairmanship, hoped to install a candidate sympathetic to his policies, preferably Interior Minister Paul Lücke, in the balloting at the C.D.U. convention next month...
...dying last November, Kuwait's Emir Abdullah as Salem as Sabah scrawled a final command on a writing pad: "Carry on in the most enlightened way." And indeed, his brother and successor, Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, has been behaving most luminously. First he ordered a $140 bonus for all government employees in the rich little oil kingdom-a token that set the royal treasury back by $13 million. Then he decided his own pay was a bit much, had the National Assembly cut his salary from $28 million to $22.4 million per annum, with the difference...
...stake its future on defense and space work. The move was well timed. The company was already deeply involved with the Navy's Polaris missile, which has accounted for more than $2 billion-a fifth-of the company's revenue over the past decade. Polaris' successor, the Poseidon, will probably bring Lockheed and its subcontractors another $2 billion...
Bullitt's wife and ten-year-old son will accompany him to Latin America, but his three daughters will remain in the United States, he said yesterday His successor as Master of Quincy has not yet been announced...