Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this is only a first step. Lee, who has no previous police experience, is only an interim appointee, without the authority to modify Gorski's organizational innovations. Harvard must realize that the officers are more interested in making sure that Gorski's permanent successor--whom it will choose before next fall--will be likely to listen to their position and judge it on its merits. The University should stage an intensive search for a chief who will combine Gorski's extensive knowledge of police procedure with a willingness to deal with all sides of the reorganization problem. Moreover, it must...
...world. The outside world knew a few facts about her-she had been a movie actress when she met Mao, and became something akin to China's cultural dictator. Yet, like all of China's top leaders, she was shrouded in mystery. Though once considered a possible successor to her husband, she is now in disgrace, apparently held captive by her opponents...
...serious threat to the Peking leadership came in 1969, only months after the fighting among Cultural Revolutionary factions had been quelled by the army. Defense Minister Lin Piao, who had been formally named Mao's successor, allegedly attempted to assassinate Mao and take supreme power for himself. When his plot failed, the official but as yet unverified account continues, he died in a plane crash over Mongolia while he was trying to flee to the Soviet Union. Chiang Ch'ing recounted the entire case in great detail during her interview, disclosing several new elements...
...enjoying his semi-retirement at Sagamore Hill, the family estate in New York. His random reminiscences of hunting and politicking are interrupted by a visit from three old political allies (all invisible, of course), asking him to enter the race for the Republican presidential nomination against his own handpicked successor, William Howard Taft. Taft has strayed from the "progressive" Rooseveltian principles he once propounded, stoking Teddy's competitive fires for one last, glorious battle. But the decision to abandon the comforts of private life and re-enter the "arena" does not come easily for Roosevelt, who resorts to a chronological...
...devoured a fat dossier, describing the American's personality and negotiating techniques, that had been prepared by Cypriot Archbishop Makarios, who dealt with Vance during the 1967 Cyprus negotiations. Restraining himself from the bear hugs with which he used to welcome Henry Kissinger, Sadat greeted Kissinger's successor as Secretary of State with warm handshakes and friendly grabs of his shoulders...