Word: vacant
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Nevertheless, South Carolina's Donald B. Russell, 59, last week quit as Governor, turned the post over to Lieutenant Governor Robert E. McNair, 41, who then appointed Russell to the Senate seat left vacant after the death of Olin Johnston on April 18. Johnston was a Senate veteran of 21 years who made his Capitol Hill name as chairman of the patronage-wielding Post Office and Civil Service Committees and maintained his home-state political power through a vast network of country-store and piny-woods cronies...
...vice-presidency becomes vacant, the President can nominate a Vice President, his choice subject to confirmation by a majority vote of each House of Congress...
...this time several high officials, such as Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and James Webb, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, had departed silently, and reporters had slipped into growing numbers of vacant chairs around the coffin-shaped table. Near the end of the session, Busby called upon Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, who turned out to be the showstopper...
Isadore Twersky '51, associate professor of Hebrew and Jewish History, has been named the Nathan Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, he will fill the chair vacant for seven years, which was previously held by his former teacher, Harry A. Wolfson...
Robert S. Fitzgerald '33, poet and translator, has been named Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. The prestigious chair has been vacant since Archibald MacLeish retired...