Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...reference to it last week, Jack Kennedy's religion continued to be the paramount issue. The Rt. Rev. Wilburn C. Campbell, Episcopal Bishop of West Virginia, said he would rather not vote for a Roman Catholic, but retired Bishop Robert E. L. Strider, Dr. Campbell's predecessor, gave Kennedy his warm endorsement. Anti-Catholic pressures and threats forced a Kennedy worker to stop distributing literature and with draw from the campaign in tiny Parsons...
...design and development, and the research operation once a satellite or probe has been fired. His qualifications are ample. Born in Terre Haute, Ind., Silverstein graduated from hometown Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1929 and, although he had several better-paying offers, took an engineering job with NASA's predecessor, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, at $2,000 a year. Starting at Virginia's Langley Aeronautical Laboratory, he helped design the first full-scale wind tunnel, moved to Cleveland's Lewis Laboratory in 1943 and plunged into jet-engine research. Today...
...favorites don't make much sense in their new context, and, anyway, they are badly sung. Some of the dances are different, too: the cancan, as it is canned in this picture, is a more sanitary matter than the original Parisian routine-a noisy, sweaty predecessor of the striptease, with a name that is one of the more notorious puns in the French language...
Died. Reginald ("Rex") Brasher, 91, Brooklyn-born gambler, adventurer, painter-ornithologist whose 874 plates include every known type of North American bird, outnumbering by far the work of his predecessor, John James Audubon; in New Milford, Conn...
...pent-up postwar demand for new schools and new teachers generated a new public interest in public education-and forced newspapers to re-examine a neglected corner of the local scene. Inevitably, the hack writers began to disappear, and today's education reporter bears little resemblance to his predecessor. He knows his subject and often brings to it, as in the case of Ben Fine (who holds seven honorary and one earned doctorate degrees), actual experience in teaching. At an educators' conference several years ago, when one speaker tried to fob off some phony statistics on teacher-student...