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...discussing the danger of admitting Red China to the United Nations. Her wit and ebullience only served to increase the mystery of another, more retiring Nationalist Chinese visitor-one whom she knows well: Defense Minister Chiang Chingkuo, the Generalissimo's son by his first marriage and his political heir apparent...
...greater. "You can never expect a leopard to change its spots," he said. "The only change we can visualize is the return of our government to the mainland." The U.S. gave him no encouragement; it opposes any such move as of now. But U.S. officials consider Chiang a capable heir to President Chiang, and they are pleased that the line of succession in Formosa now seems clearly drawn. A power struggle on the island might allow Peking to gain through politics what the Nationalist Army and the U.S. Seventh Fleet have denied it through invasion...
Organized labor lacks a new generation of prospective leaders; in the vast majority of major unions, the heir apparent to the incumbent is of the same generation. Examples: International Machinists' President Al Hayes, 65, was succeeded by Vice President Roy Siemiller, 60; the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' Gordon Freeman, 68, is likely to be followed by Joe Keenan, also 68; waiting in line behind the United Mine Workers' Tony Boyle, 60, is old John L.'s youngest brother, Ray Lewis...
Died. Clifford Stanton Heinz III, 25, great-grandson of Food-Company Founder H. J. Heinz and heir to a share in the $40 million family fortune; by his own hand (.25-cal. pistol), following several years of general despondency and psychiatric treatment; in Chicago...
...what came out was a freshet of lush sound that exploited the limits of the instrument's capabilities. At 38, Mstislav Rostropovich is ranked by many critics as the foremost heir to the mantle of Pablo Casals, now 88. More impetuous than the visionary Casals, Rostropovich's attack is charged with a propulsive urgency, his singing tone more darkly burnished...