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...first thing to remember is that Horace Dodge is dead. That won't change. As for the rest of it, who knows? Just before the auto heir died last December, he was divorcing his wife, but luckily for her he didn't make it in time, and Gregg Sherwood Dodge, fortyish, became his widow instead. She thought that meant she was in line for his $2,500,000 estate. Only he had too many debtors. So Gregg decided to sue not only his estate but also his mother (who's worth $65,000,000) for trying...
...twenty-five years after his victory the Caudillo is a weathered seventy-one. A hunting accident suffered several years ago brought the succession question to the front of everybody's mind. Since a 1947 plebescite--the only one during his reign--Franco has had the right to name an heir at any time. Yet, to date he has done nothing to insure continuity after his death...
Angry Agreement. It was just this sort of talk that got the Lion thrown in jail the first time. Members of Nehru's Congress Party and the opposition found themselves for once in angry agreement, many of them demanding that the sheik be rearrested. Said Nehru's heir apparent, Minister Without Portfolio Lai Bahadur Shastri, with perhaps just a touch of that self-righteousness his boss had criticized: "There is, of course, complete freedom of expression in India. But there can be no freedom for preaching some kind of independence or secession from the Indian union...
...They Go. Like a string of sand castles, the old political machines of the late Dictator Getulio Vargas and his heir, Jango Goulart, came tumbling down in ruins. No sooner was the Institutional Act proclaimed than the military summarily dismissed 40 Congress men, stripped them of all political rights for ten years; 60 other highly placed Brazilians also found their political rights suspended, among them Goulart, Quadros, Marxist Peasant League Organizer Francisco Juliao, and Leonel Brizola, Goulart's rabble-rousing brother-in-law, who fled to Uruguay...
...Prime Minister, Ghulam Mohammed Sadiq, announced that Sheik Abdullah, 58, would be released and that all political conspiracy charges against him had been dropped. Sadiq's move, aimed at easing religious and political tensions in the state, caught New Delhi unawares. Nehru's deputy and heir apparent, Lai Bahadur Shastri, could only stammer in answer to questions in Parliament that "as far as we know, it will be an unconditional release...