Word: successors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nessen, 40, has taken over Ron Ziegler's post as press secretary. L. William Seidman, 53, as Assistant to the President for Economic Affairs, succeeds Kenneth Rush. Kenneth Cole has submitted his resignation as executive director of the Domestic Council, but is continuing to serve until a successor is chosen...
...years in preparation, the Met's Boris was initiated by the late Göran Gentele and carried to brilliant fruition by his successor as general manager, Schuyler Chapin. It is easily the triumph of the Met's post-Rudolf Bing era. Chapin has even brought in Choreographer George Balanchine to stage a coolly graceful polonaise. Ming Cho Lee, 44, responsible for so many splendid New York City Opera sets (Giulio Cesare, Don Rodrigo), makes his Met debut with a masterly series of designs that not only touch the eyes but also move the drama forward virtually without...
...Godfather, Part II is a worthy successor to its predecessor. Francis Coppola has made a richly detailed, intelligent film that uses overorganized crime as a metaphor to comment on the coldness and corruption of an overorganized modern world. -Richard Schickel...
With Tanaka reduced to caretaker status, L.D.P. leaders began the complex bargaining that will result in a consensus on a successor, possibly this week. Tanaka's own choice is Finance Minister Masayoshi Ohira, 64. His chief rival is former Finance Minister Takeo Fukuda, 69, a sleepy-looking veteran politician who was runner-up to Tanaka in the party election of 1972. Although a conservative, Fukuda has long called for reform of Japan's system of "money power," and this may make him more palatable to the party leaders as a symbol of belated reform...
...fifth Mrs. B. Then suddenly she married a fellow company member, Paul Mejia, 27, and, in the face of Balanchine's obvious displeasure, went into exile with the Maurice Bejart company in Brussels. However, three months ago, Balanchine, 70, was professionally spurned by her most dazzling successor, Gelsey Kirkland, 21, who went to dance with Mikhail Baryshnikov at the American Ballet Theater...