Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liberal" strategy was first employed by Governor Warren and his successor, Goodwin J. Knight. Warren unveiled a program that included such previously unheard of measures as rent control and a fair employment practices act. What he was quite consciously doing was taking enough New Deal-like positions to attract a hefty segment of California's largely non-committed voters...
...Slender Successor. As Abdullah wished, the Council of Ministers quickly proclaimed his brother, Premier Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, as Kuwait's new Emir. Like his brother, Sabah is a kind and conservative aristocrat, and a devoutly religious nondrinker. The resemblance ends there. Abdullah was tall and portly, and had a commanding, fatherly presence. Sabah is short (5 ft. 5 in.), slender, and a good deal less commanding. "Sabah is quietly weak." said one Kuwaiti official, "while Abdullah was quietly strong...
...such touchy themes as unwed pregnancy (The L-Shaped Room), sexual fetishism (The Collector), infidelity (Juliet of the Spirits), and the emptiness of Jet Set life (Darling)! The answer: that stern old guardian of movie morals, the Roman Catholic National Legion of Decency. Despite its reputation as a censorious successor to Comstock, the Legion has lately changed into a surprisingly sophisticated appraiser of adult films; it is even dropping its rather arrogant and muscular name...
...Kennedy's successor it must sometimes seem unjust that he himself is so often measured less by Kennedy's own standards of performance than by the imponderables of the Kennedy legend. Historians may some day rank both Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson as "great"; yet it is ironic that Kennedy, who by his own admission wanted to be remembered for getting things done, may instead have made his mark by the magic force of personality, while Johnson, who would love to be admired for himself, may be remembered as a President who was merely stunningly effective...
When Yale head football coach John Pont left New Haven for the more fertile fields of Big Ten football, the Yale Athletic Association did not have to look far for a successor. Within three weeks, backfield coach Carmen Cozza, a long time friend and associate of Pont, was named to the post...