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After making several "middle-of-the-road" or "liberal" cabinet appointments. President Ford has moved to appease the uneasy conservative wing of his party by installing Hathaway as sucessor to Commerce Department-bound Rogers C.B. Morton. For good reason environmentalists have attacked the Hathaway nomination and plan to battle it in the Senate, where Hathaway's confirmation hearings opened Monday. Still, if the Senate acts customarily, Hathaway will gain easy approval...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Danger from Within | 4/23/1975 | See Source »

...tearn in Chicago. How much Foss had to do with all this is a moot question. Very little, said his enemies among the owners-and last week they forced him to quit with a year still to go on his 50,000-a-year contract. As Foss's sucessor they chose Oakland Raiders Coach Al Davis. Foss's good advice to Davis: "Wear a thick skin and a soft mile, and carry a sense of humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: Aced Out | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...sucessor to Dr. Adenauer, it seems most likely that Ludwig Erhard, burly Minister of Economics, will inherit the mantle, although some have speculated on Finance Minister Franz Etzel's chances. In the years since Adenauer took office there have been several contenders for the succession: Schaeffer, the original Finance Minister was the first, but too unsavory a connection with past scandals descredited him. The present foreign minister Heinrich von Brento seems unable to generate enthusiasm; Franz-Josef Strauss, Defense Minister, not composer, was also in the running for a time...

Author: By Charles S. Maier, | Title: Doubtful Promotion | 4/14/1959 | See Source »

...sucessor as Red Cross president NATO'S retiring Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Alfred M. Gruenther...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: New Faces Abroad | 11/26/1956 | See Source »

Molloy probably won't be back for the rest of the year, according to both the doctors and Jordan Olivar. And what old Blues feared after he was injured has happened--his sucessor, Jim Lopez, just hasn't shown the passing accuracy that Yale must depend on. Lopez has helped the Elis defensively, but probably right now Olivar would trade all of last year's defensive platoon for a small, slow, little man like Carroll Lowenstein, with a sturdy accurate arm like Lowenstein...

Author: By David L. Halberstam, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 11/5/1953 | See Source »

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