Word: successors
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...executive of the new firm. The automaker will also get top billing in the new corporate name, Rolls-Royce Vickers. Euphony aside, the name is expected to add an element of prestige to the combine. First order of business for the new company: the fall roll-out of a successor to the 15-year-old Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. The new car's prototype has been code-named the Rolls-009 and will, as the bottom-of-the-line model, sell for more than...
...another in a long string of embarrassments for the company since 1968, when NBC Founder Da vid Sarnoff handed his firm over to Son Bobby. Bobby Sarnoff, an erratic administrator, plunged the firm into computers, where it eventually had to write off a $490 million pretax loss. Sarnoff s successor, Anthony L. Conrad, resigned in 1976 after informing the board of directors that he had not filed income tax returns for five years...
DIED. Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli, 70, one of the Roman Catholic Church's leading diplomats, who visited 105 countries as a Vatican envoy and was a strong candidate for the papacy after the deaths in 1978 of Pope Paul VI and his short-lived successor, John Paul I; of a blood clot of the lungs; during a visit to his home town of Reggio Emilia. Pignedoli served as a navy chaplain in World War II; he was elevated to Cardinal in 1973. As head of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, he "blotted his copybook" during an attempt at Christian-Islamic...
...political system that eventually will choose Leonid Brezhnev's successor as leader would appear to be a model democracy. It is headed by the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R., which is composed of 1,500 members and which elects a select body of 39 representatives known as the Presidium. In fact, political power rests with a gigantic, self-protecting and self-selecting bureaucracy that is effectively controlled by a small and cautious elite. The constitution adopted in 1977 -the fourth in the history of the U.S.S.R.-was the first to assert the primacy of the Communist Party in Soviet...
...five years following Brezhnev's death, most of the top leadership will be replaced. Every effort will be made to give the impression of an orderly succession. An interim leadership group composed of some of Brezhnev's surviving associates will presumably come to the fore. The immediate successor in Brezhnev's key post as General Secretary of the Communist Party is expected to be Andrei Kirilenko, who is three months older than Brezhnev, but in better health. Another contender for the job of party chief is Konstantin Chernenko, 68; like Kirilenko, he is a longtime Brezhnev supporter...