Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...descent ?Australopithecus, Homo erectus, modern man?one following the other in logical order. Now all that has changed. "We can no longer talk of a great chain of being in the 19th century sense, from which there is a missing link," says Phillip Tobias, 51, Dart's successor as professor of anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand medical school in Johannesburg. "We should think rather of multiple strands forming a network of evolving populations, diverging and converging, some strands disappearing, others giving rise to further evolutionary development...
...Republican, obviously wants to see higher interest rates, and a closer growth of money supply, than the White House would like, and his stand does nothing to increase the chances that Carter will reappoint him when his term as board chairman expires Jan. 31. Washington speculation on his possible successor is already narrowing to Robert V. Roosa, a partner in the investment banking house of Brown Bros. Harriman, and Paul Volcker, head of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. (Arthur Okun, a Brookings Institution economist and member of TIME'S Board of Economists, whose name also has been mentioned, says...
...Moore said he had not considered the matter of Pearlman's successor, and that Pearlman was still welcome to stay on at the station as sports director or in some other capacity...
...airport to meet visiting chiefs of state and pumping the hands of ambassadors at diplomatic receptions. Brezhnev, 70, reportedly ailing with arteriosclerosis and leukemia, was regarded as too old and frail for such chores. His selection of a Vice President might suggest his choice of a successor-when he retires or dies...
...Boston studio, he signaled his retirement. The frog-voiced, razor-witted Daumier of Dogpatch for purt' near 44 years casually told an assistant: "You can stop cutting the paper. I'm not going to draw any more." Last week Capp disclosed that he will have no successor. Said he: "I've tried one or two people, and it was clear that there would be an awful change." His last weekday strip will appear in newspapers on Nov. 5; his last Sunday color sequence -featuring that peerless detective, Fearless Fosdick-will be published...