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...crash kills the heir apparent to the House of Nehru...
...screen but in broadcasters' boardrooms. The latst victim: Maurice R. Valente, 51, fired iast week as president of RCA Corp. after just six months on the job. Like CBS President John D. Backe, dismissed seven weeks ago by CBS Chairman William S. Paley, Valente had been the heir apparent to a major communications com pany. RCA is the parent company...
Chicago's blacks have never enjoyed so much political clout. Now 40% of the city's population, the 1.2 million blacks helped defeat the late Mayor Richard Daley's selected heir, Michael Bilandic, and thus gave Jane Byrne a tenuous hold on city hall in 1979. A black will probably run for mayor in 1983. Blacks head the city's finance committee and the school board, and the city police department is now 23% black...
...Duvalier-signal a possible new moderation? Probably not. The real significance seemed to be the consolidation of Baby Doc's power within the family fiefdom, in which his mother, Simone, for instance, still holds the title of First Lady of the Republic. In this dynastic system, a princely heir will help ensure perpetual rule...
Mayr's citation. The learned heir of Audobon and Agassiz, he guided a great research museum to new pinnacles of distinction...