Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Generalissimo Francisco Franco lives or dies, it seems evident that Spain will have a new ruler by next week. While the end of Franco's rule marks, in one sense, the end of a symbol of fascism, it is not clear whether totalitarianism will continue under his hand-picked successor, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon. Franco chose Juan Carlos to be his successor in 1969 to ensure "political continuity and stability." And it's good news that the future king--Spain's first monarch since 1931--has indicated that he's interested in bringing Spain into the European political...
...Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corp., began to apply gentlemanly persuasion to straighten Hutchison out. In August the bank agreed to pump $30 million into the company in return for 150 million newly created shares of its stock-on condition that Clague give way to a bank-picked successor. That ultimatum prompted Clague to make a last-ditch effort to raise capital from European banks. He failed...
Defeated, Clague last month moved out of his plush offices at the 24-story Hutchison House on Hong Kong's waterfront. His bank-picked successor is Conglomerate Rescue Artist William Wyllie; a four-man caretaker team, in consultation with Wyllie, has moved to sell off some of Hutchison's holdings. To raise $5 million, they peddled an 18% interest in a British investment firm. Company insiders expect that a commercial helicopter subsidiary may be sold off or folded, while management control of a merchant banking affiliate will be divested. Hutchison has also been selling off shares of other...
...poll favored Hoffa's return to the Teamsters' general presidency. His rough fidelity is returned in kind: while in prison, truckers making deliveries to the Lewisburg pen drove past his cell window and shouted manly encouragement. Hoffa's other obsession--the crusade against Frank Fitzsimmons, his handpicked successor as Teamsters' head--is not only the product of a power-mad boss, but the outraged sense of a regular guy whose wife has been raped by his best friend...
...following a 6-3 season the year before, Brown hired a new coach by the name of John J. McLaughry. The regimes of McLaughry and of his successor, Len Jardine, spanned the next 14 autumns in Providence, and went down in Bruin history the same way that the Nixon and Harding Administrations were recorded in American annals...