Word: successors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...increasing dominance of CBS's largest stockholder (he controls 24.9% of the outstanding shares) was underlined once again last week. As Tisch and Paley emerged from a three-hour regular monthly session of the 14-member CBS board, word spread that directors had once again avoided choosing a Wyman successor. A seven-member search committee, headed by former Defense Secretary Harold Brown, has met three times so far but has set no deadline for its task. The main reason for the committee's lassitude is that Tisch is not yet finished with his task of reorganizing the company...
...fear because of its potential -- and unconcealed desire -- to stir up Islamic fundamentalist revolution outside its own borders. Says one veteran Arab diplomat in Cairo: "This Reaganite crisis will incapacitate the Administration. I am very much afraid we will have to wait two years (that is, until Reagan's successor is elected) before the U.S. can play a major role in the region...
...gunmen who had executed former Bonanno Boss Carmine Galante in the garden of a Brooklyn restaurant in 1979. The Gambinos, the fifth of the New York families that dominate the commission, were not represented. Gambino Boss Paul Castellano was slain on a Manhattan street last December, and his apparent successor, John Gotti, is on trial in yet another New York racketeering case...
Colombo. With Persico and Langella both facing prison for long terms, no clear-cut successor can be named. Law-enforcement officials are divided on whether Joseph Brancato, 69, Vincent Aloi, 63, or Aloi's younger brother Benny, 51, will move up. Brancato served mainly as an errand boy for Persico, according to New York investigators, and seems to lack real clout. The Aloi brothers, on the other hand, appear to have the Mob smarts to run the family -- if they want to take the risk of doing...
...great Van Gogh exhibition in 1984 tracked the artist's career from his arrival in Arles to the spring of 1889. Its successor, "Van Gogh in Saint-Remy and Auvers," which opens to the public this week, completes the trajectory. The organizer of both shows, the English art historian Ronald Pickvance, has brought together 70 paintings and 19 drawings from this last phase of Van Gogh's short life. Here we see the stuff of the most powerful legend of suffering and transcendence in modern art, and no superlatives seem apt to encompass its beauty and emotional range...