Word: successor
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Also in store for the world's largest grocery is a long look at its management policies. A. & P. heirs, many of whom wish to diversify their holdings, have begun to ponder about a successor to A. & P.'s President Ralph Burger, 69, hand-picked for his job by the late John Hartford and his brother George (who died in 1957, dissolving a family trust and making the stock exchange possible...
...grand tour, spent much of his time studying French literature at the Universities of Grenoble and Toulouse. He earned his doctorate in mathematical physics at Zurich, returned to M.I.T. to teach electrical engineering, soon switched to physics. His first big administrative task after World War II: organizing the successor to the institute's wartime Radiation Laboratory, which had been chiefly responsible for the development of radar, under a new title-the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He became known for a quiet manner, for almost painfully earnest efforts to resolve clashing points of view, and for a broad understanding...
Only eleven days after the Andrea Doria sank off Nantucket two years ago, the state-controlled Italian Line decided to commission Genoa's great Ansaldo shipyards to build a replacement. This week the Dona's nearly completed successor, the $30 million Leonardo da Vinci, slid down the ways...
Harold Cowles, squash and tennis coach at Harvard from 1923 to 1937, died Monday night. During his years as coach, his squash teams never lost an intercollegiate match, and included twelve national champions. John M. Barnaby '32, his successor, called him, "One of the most successful coaches Harvard has ever...
...result of a ten-year-old program. After World War II, the late George Mason, then company president, concluded from market surveys that the U.S. was ready to return to "basic transportation" and a smaller, compact car. While other U.S. cars became costlier and heavier, Mason and his successor, Romney, introduced the first Rambler in 1950, drove it into the field, where the only competition was foreign. To cut costs, Romney consolidated field organization, factories and production, kept model changes at a minimum. He pushed Rambler's break-even point down to a low 120,000 cars a year...