Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When William Simon was named to create the Federal Energy Office last December, his job was staggering but at least sharply defined: to cope with a full-blown crisis of menacing proportions. Now that he is leaving to become Secretary of the Treasury, his deputy and successor as FEO chief, John Crittenden Sawhill, faces a more complex and subtle challenge...
...have to take into account not only Cairo's increasingly independent role, but also the continuing unsettled political situation in Israel. Even while they watched the Golan Heights last week and alerted reservists to defend it, Israel's political leaders were busy trying to agree on a successor to Premier Golda Meir, who resigned two weeks ago. Labor Party leaders had a choice of selecting someone else, if the right supporting coalition could be found, or of asking Golda to continue with a caretaker government. In either case, the job would be only temporary since it would terminate...
...actually engaged in liaisons with several women, all of whom, as Brodie suggestively phrases it, were "in some sense forbidden." Appropriately, it was in Paris that Widower Thomas Jefferson, 42, enjoyed his flashiest illicit idyl. As a trade negotiator for George Washington, and later Benjamin Franklin's successor as Minister to France, the lanky Virginian fell in love with Maria Cosway, a capricious Englishwoman married to an obnoxious painter and court toady in London...
Danehy then tried to delay the appointment of Lowell City Manager James L. Sullivan as John Corcoran's successor at City Hall. To Danehy's amazement, Corcoran neither contested his dismissal nor called public hearings and the council majority followed through with Sullivan's appointment...
...fond of making analogies between Harvard and his experiences there. With his reputation as one of the best and brightest secure both in Cleveland and at Harvard, his opportunities seemed just about limitless. In the better watering spots of Cleveland, it is said, Calkins was touted as a possible successor to the mantles of Jack Kennedy and John Lindsay...