Word: interregnum
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...Apollo disaster in January plunged the U.S. space program into an agonizing interregnum of introspection and doubt. Last week the nation's space leaders made it plain that the time has come to focus once more on the moon. America's hopes of a lunar landing by 1970 can still be realized, National Aeronautics and Space Administration Chief James E. Webb told Congress, barring any recurrence of major technical problems...
...wave to their wives; J. Fred Muggs, the rubber-pantsed chimp, ran amuck on daily cue; publicists seemed to own the show, particularly if they were pushing gimmicky toys or beauty queens. Then Newsman John Chancellor (now director of the Voice of America) took over in a 14-month interregnum that tautened the ship and sobered the crew...
...over the executive], discussed transition problems with an associate from Truman days, Richard Neustadt, a political scientist who had worked in the Bureau of the Budget and later as a Special Assistant in the White House before becoming a professor at Columbia. Neustadt shared Clifford's concern about the interregnum. Both remembered all too well the lost weeks after the triumph of 1948 when Truman went off to Key West and, in his absence, congressional leaders made bargains with interest groups which deprived him of control over his own legislative program. To his practical experience in government Neustadt added...
...Bombay and favorite of India's big businessmen. One might consider Y. B. Chavan, 51, Shastri's Defense Minister, who had won good marks during last fall's war with Pakistan. There was also acting Prime Minister Gulzarilal Nanda, who had held that post once before during the interregnum after Nehru's death. And then there was former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 69, the hard-necked, puritanical Hindu who had lost out in the succession fight after Nehru's death. Now he was determined not to lose a second time...
Recounting the "lean years of the past three decades, the long interregnum of Harvard theater," Levin compared former President Lowell to St. Patrick, asserting that Lowell's lack of support had in effect banished theater from Harvard "as surely as snakes had been driven from Ireland...