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Cambridge City Manager John J. Curry '19 has appointed a top-level assistant and heir apparent to the City's top administrative post. Many observers viewed be move as an attempt to disrupt a drive to out the 67-year-old manager from office...
Until the dark day dawned, fortune smiled relentlessly on Dilke. Heir to a minor publishing fortune, he was a first-class scholar and athlete at Cambridge, soon after graduation stood successfully for Parliament and then followed up his election with a sociopolitical study of the British Empire (Greater Britain) that hugely impressed the British intellectual and political establishment. At 39, he became the youngest member of the Gladstone Cabinet...
Albania & Albinos. Not that Schlesinger minds. As the heir to a proud historical tradition, he was encouraged from his earliest days to hold the mirror up to everything, past and present, and to declare his judgment of what he saw. His judgments were loud and clear and precociously decisive. Says a friend: "Arthur has always had to contend with an enormous coalition of the envious and the aggrieved-those who are jealous of his talents and those who have suffered from them...
Another Russian specialist, who preferred to remain anonymous, confirmed that that was an advancement for Shelepin and a demotion for Podgerny. However, he noted, "if people think he's the heir apparent, chances are he won't assume the throne." He described Shelepin as a man of "cool intelligence." He's a kind of McGeorge Bundy figure, only more sinister," he said...
Junior Wayne Anderson ought to be leading the pack onto the gravel. He stepped into Aggrey Awori's sprinting sneakers last season to win the 60-yard dash in the Heps. Close behind Anderson will be another Awori heir-apparent, hurdler Tony Lynch. Harvard's plucky captain. Lynch eclipsed Awori at 60 yards in last year's Heps, tying the African's 1963 record...