Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrator, Tarden, is the agent of the horrors suffered by the brutalized boy in The Painted Bird and perhaps his inevitable successor. Where the boy was tortured by a primitive, irrational peasantry, Tarden is the tormentor, choosing his victims arbitrarily and without passion. As a child of three, he recalls, Tarden plunged a pair of scissors into the breast of his nurse; he remembers watching the purple stain spreading through her blouse. He moves on to varieties of cruelty that defy, one would have thought, imagining...
...administrative outfit. L. Gard Wiggins, vice president for President Emeritus Nathan M. Pusey '28, handled almost all the affairs now divided among the four vice presidents serving President Bok. When it issued its report in 1971, the University Committee on Governance that originally recommended that Pusey's successor should appoint separate vice presidents, each with specific functions, warned of potential problems if Harvard appointed someone responsible only for stressing administrative efficiency...
...firing. They did so as a last resort. An Ohio state grand jury that looked into the case had indicted only students for their part in the rioting that preceded the shooting. Former Attorney General John Mitchell had refused even to convene a federal grand jury. His successor, Elliot Richardson, had done so, and eight Guardsmen were indicted. But after hearing the evidence, Federal Judge Frank Battisti had thrown out the charges on a technicality...
...since Velasco staged his own coup in 1968. The former President, 65, had been ailing for some time (severe circulatory problems caused the amputation of his right leg in 1973), and his power within Peru's military had been declining. Morales, 53, had been thought of as his successor anyway and already held the titles of Premier, Army Chief of Staff and Defense Minister...
Cancer Surgery. Thrice married, most recently to Lyn Fisher Sheresky Revson, whom he divorced in 1974, Revson was aware that he was dying after cancer surgery last year and began to look for a successor. The man he chose is Michel Bergerac, 43, former president of ITT-Europe, a capable, urbane Frenchman (and naturalized U.S. citizen) who was lured to Revlon by a $5 million contract and a chance to run his own show. Bergerac plans to work on, among other things, developing greater management depth at Revlon-one detail that never interested Revson...