Word: successors
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What makes Byrd the likely successor to Montana's patient, low-keyed Mike Mansfield, now retired after 16 years in the post? Hardly a popular Senate member or even a "Club" insider, Byrd has made the Senate work. He has labored relentlessly and generally with fairness to satisfy the whims and needs of his fellow Democrats. During his six years as majority whip, Byrd has stayed on the floor through long dreary hours, rounding up Senators for an important vote or delaying action on a bill when a legislator was on a campaign tour, a junket or simply a binge...
...committee searching for a successor to Walter J. Leonard, former assistant to the President, concedes that it has no candidates for Leonard's job. Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, explains, "We haven't been able to agree on a meeting time...
Daley seemed so indestructible that nobody was prepared for his departure. Some 15 candidates are already scrambling to replace him. A special election will be held within six months, and in the meantime, an acting mayor will be selected by the city council. Daley's successor will not have comparable clout since he will undoubtedly be denied the top party job that Daley held. Says Political Scientist Milton Rakove of the University of Illinois' Circle Campus: "The politburo takes over now. They won't let anyone have that kind of power again." For better or worse, Richard...
...Gang of Four in the weeks surrounding the death of Mao and focused on the gang's prowess as forgers. The forgery involved the last instructions issued by Mao, which are presently being trumpeted all over China in order to legitimize the rule of Mao's successor, Hua Kuo-feng. Mao reportedly wrote to Hua, "Act in line with past principles; with you in charge I am at ease." Days after Mao's death the gang altered the final instructions to read, "Act according to the principles laid down." The forged quote was published in several...
With ringing, self-congratulatory toasts, Ho Chi Minh's successor, Secretary-General Le Duan, 68, last week ended the first Congress of the Vietnamese Communist Party since 1960-and the first held in a unified Viet Nam. The six-day meeting in some respects resembled an overblown victory banquet. The 1,008 cadres and 24 fraternal foreign delegations-led by the Soviet Central Committee's Mikhail Suslov-endured no fewer than 55 speeches, including an eight-hour stem-winder by Le Duan. The theme of the Congress-Thong Nhat (national reunification)-was symbolized by the arrival of delegates...