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Hence McGovern hopes-presuming the continued presidential reticence of Edward Kennedy-to appear as the political heir to Robert Kennedy. By seeking the same constituency that Kennedy did in 1968. McGovern. by implication at least, will be trying to shove Muskie into the old-politics ditch of Hubert Humphrey and Lyndon Johnson...
...exact. Madame Guillon-Lethière and her son rise against a background of the Spanish Steps, not like personages in a theater of antiquity, but as people confidently occupying space in a real landscape. Civil Engineer Charles Francois Mallet poses by the Tiber as if he were heir to the Roman aqueduct builders...
That apocalyptic allegory is the plot of Der Dra-Dra, the latest work of one of Communism's most controversial artists. Wolf Biermann, 34, a sad-faced East Berlin balladeer, is the spiritual heir of Bertolt Brecht, who spent his last years in the city. But while Brecht directed most of his barbs at the abuses of capitalism ("Don't rob a bank. Own one"), Biermann aims his satire at the political dictatorships of both left and right. Biermann's approach has hardly endeared him to Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and East Germany...
Another reason for delay was a running debate within Israel's Cabinet on the question of negotiations. One faction, including Eban, Deputy Premier Yigal Allon and Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir, heir apparent to Mrs. Meir (TIME, Dec. 14), favored a quick return to the Jarring talks. Another, ted by Mrs. Meir and her principal Cabinet adviser, Israel Galili, was skeptical of this approach and held out-fruitlessly-for removal of Egyptian missiles from Suez in return for Israel's reappearance. Defense Minister Dayan wavered between the two sides...
...time it seemed that Ludwig did have a business heir: William W. Wagner, vice president of National Bulk Carriers. But Wagner died unexpectedly in March. Said one insider: "Wagner must have had 40 people reporting to him directly. When he went, we were suddenly missing two full levels of management." With unexpected room at the top, there is now competition for power. The leading aspirant is John Notter, 35, president of American-Hawaiian Steamship. Notter, however, is not a shipping man, as Wagner was, but a real estate expert. "What Ludwig needs," says a banker who knows him well...