Word: successors
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VICTORIAN SCANDAL, by Roy Jenkins. The Dilke Case was the Profumo Affair of the Victorian era, a politico-sexual scandal that rocked an administration and blasted the career of the man who at 42 had already been designated as Gladstone's successor. The story is authoritatively told by Historian Roy Jenkins, Home Secretary in Britain's Labor government...
...working condition." Prime Minister Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury, was dedicated to the principle that a nation should be ruled by its "natural" leaders -those with fortune and position so secure "that the struggles for ambition are not defiled by the taint of sordid greed." His successor was his nephew, Arthur Balfour, a languid genius with so exquisitely balanced an intellect that once, arriving for an evening party at a house whose staircase was split into two curves, he stood for 20 minutes at the bottom trying to find a logical reason for ascending by one side...
...described Shastri as "a friendly, warm, attractive" man "with a great deal of determination." Under Shastri's successor, Galbraith predicted, there will be "a very high degree of continuity in India's relations with China, Russia, Pakistan, and the United States...
Storrow is unlikely to shoot the Nation's own sizable herd of sacred cows. "I've never met a man with whom I've shared so many ideas," says Kirstein of his successor. Storrow boasts no publishing experience beyond his trial run in putting out the Nation's 100th anniversary issue last summer. Yet so uncharacteristically sleek was that 336-page effort that Storrow may be just the man to make dollars out of dissent. He feels confident that he can double circulation to 60,000 within 18 months and show a modest profit-the first...
...past nine years, one President of Brazil nearly spent the country into bankruptcy, his erratic successor resigned after seven months in office, and the next man did his best to deliver the nation to Communism and corruption before the military threw him out. Brazil's economy naturally remained in a state of chaos, and its political life was a bruising free-for-all. Now all that is beginning to change. After 21 months in power, President Humberto Castello Branco's tough-minded revolutionary government is giving Brazil a breath of political and economic stability...