Word: successors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...space-minded investors; into the air he launched the Early Bird satellite, now relaying sound and pictures from a perch 22,300 miles over the equator. Welch, who had earlier retired as Jersey Standard's chair man, was bothered by a kidney ailment He pressed for a younger successor and last week he had his wish. Taking over the $125,000 job: courtly, cerebral James McCormack, 54, a retired major general with degrees from Oxford (where he was a Rhodes scholar studying modern languages) and from West Point and M.I.T. (both in engineering) who is now an M.I.T. vice...
...mercurial politician who has proved a gadfly to every Brazilian President since Getulio Vargas in the 1950s. Lacerda now has presidential ambitions of his own in the elections scheduled for next year. But to have a chance, he first had to secure his base by installing a hand-picked successor as Governor of Guanabara. La cerda chose a presentable crony, campaigned furiously for him. Nevertheless, Kubitschek's candidate defeated him at the polls-527,184 votes...
...cannot, he has two choices. One is to allow an election, hoping for the best. The other is to use some gimmick of indirect elections, based on an electoral college system, to install whatever successor he chooses...
Columbia's backfield won't terrify anyone this season. Roberts' successor is junior Rick Ballantine, who played as a defensive back last year. He is a fair runner; against Lafayette he carried the ball 19 times for 98 yards. Vying with Ballantine for the starting quarterback role is sophomore John Burns. He's a passer--sort of. Against Lafayette he completed two of thirteen throws...
...Perry entered St. Augustine's Divine Word Seminary in Mississippi at 13, was ordained in 1944, and spent 14 years as a parish priest. Appointed rector of the seminary in 1958, he worked for better race relations, caught the eye of Archbishop John P. Cody, Rummel's successor in New Orleans and now archbishop of Chicago. Cody last week joined Archbishop Hannan in announcing the appointment of his protege...