Word: successors
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Boost for Long. Over the past two years, as the Virginian has become increasingly infirm, Louisiana's Russell Long has taken on much of the load of the Finance Committee while shepherding several Great Society bills through the Senate. As Byrd's successor, Long-who inherited Hubert Humphrey's job as Senate majority whip-will hold one of the Senate's most powerful positions. Though personally volatile and politically unpredictable, Long, 47, has a record of populist liberalism that will undoubtedly be more in harmony with the legislative goals of the Johnson Administration than was Byrd...
Although his successor has not been announced, Toepfer said that the new vice dean would probably not handle admissions matters. He explained that there has been an increase in both the number and quality of applicants since he assumed the vice deanship in 1959. From 1680 applications that year, the volume has more than doubled to its present level...
...people of Eastern Europe." Then everyone hied themselves over to Hye (pop. 134), an unincorporated crossroads five miles from the ranch. There, Larry O'Brien, the aide who did the most to ram the Great Society legislation through the 89th Congress, was sworn in as Gronouski's successor...
...Odegaard's successor at Michigan, Roger W. Heyns, has also headed west, is now chancellor of the University of California's Berkeley campus...
Anti-Shanty. Oddly enough, the Kennedys might just have scraped together enough votes to win. Their cause had been given a powerful boost by Nicholas Katzenbach, Bobby Kennedy's successor as U.S. Attorney General, who had assigned the FBI to look into Morrissey's confused past. Katzenbach's statement, contending that Morrissey's testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee had been entirely truthful, glossed over the essential details; the FBI report as released in summary form, did not resolve all the inconsistencies between Morrissey's testimony and other information that had come to light (TIME...