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...days in the job, thus becoming another victim of the spreading Watergate-related revelations. Eleven short weeks ago, Cook seemed likely to make his mark as the youngest SEC chief ever (he is 36), and one who would carry out the far-reaching stock-market reforms begun by his predecessor, William J. Casey; instead, he will have only the unhappy distinction of the shortest chairmanship in the SEC's 39-year history. His departure leaves a shaken agency that will have difficulty carrying out its role of guiding and policing the nation's financial markets...
...pushed hard and successfully for the company's new Mini-Met, devoted to intimate or experimental operas in small halls with mostly young casts. To the Met staff's evident joy, he preserved and deepened the aura of good will between management and unions fostered by his predecessor, Goran Gentele, who was killed last July in a car crash in Sardinia before he ever really had a chance...
...post, Harvard's money passes into the hands of another group of men. Bennett's successor, George Putnam '49, comes from essentially the same world of Boston high finance. But bred in a rival business circle, Putnam doesn't have any special allegiance to the policies of his predecessor...
Compared to his predecessor, Putnam is considered to be more liberal, both in terms of his financial philosophy and his personal political viewpoints...
...dramatic." They give the new curator high marks for having restored the program to its hard-drinking vitality. Many of the changes were obvious and long-overdue, they say, but they also note that they could not have occurred without the financial shot in the arm which Thomson's predecessor, Dwight E. Sargent, administered to the program...