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...Item: Rumors from Cairo insisted that Nasser on his deathbed had designated Mohieddin his heir, which was not likely...
...major thesis of the book, and the most intriguing, is that Richard Nixon is the logical heir of the American Liberal Tradition. Wills may have rejected the Right Wing, but his hatred of liberals remained intact in the course of his conversion. The liberals, and their hypocritical philosophy, are the cause of, among other things, war, imperialism, and economic instability, he says. Nixon is their heir, both because he considers himself the ideological descendant of the great liberals, and because his administration has inherited all of the mistakes of its liberal predecessors...
...Representative Michael Harrington '58 was elected in September 1969 from a district which had not elected a Democrat in 76 years. Harrington defeated State Senator Bill Saltonstall, heir of a political dynasty, by stressing the Vietnam and military spending issues, by tying Saltonstall to the Nixon Administration and by picturing himself as a gut fighter, with the slogan: "He has the guts to do what's right...
WHEN asked why he refused to parcel out any real power to his ministers, Nasser once replied: "Show me ten men I can trust and I'll start delegating authority." Apparently he never found them. Before his death, Nasser refused to groom a political heir. The resulting vacuum in leadership could lead to chaos, to a collective leadership or even to a sudden coup d'etat executed by a young unknown, just as happened 18 years...
...Father in 1866, when he was 27. For years it hung in the privacy of a mansion on the outskirts of Paris owned by the family of the French industrialist Auguste Pellerin, who was an assiduous collector of Cezannes. Some ten years ago Paul Mellon, son and heir of Andrew Mellon, saw it there and with the tenacity of true love, set out to buy it. An intricate mating dance of negotiations began in 1965 and culminated at a Washington press conference last week, when Mellon announced the gift of the Cezanne to the National Gallery his father...