Word: successors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Green's successor: Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright, 53, who was born in Missouri, went to Oxford with a Rhodes scholarship, served for two years as president of the University of Arkansas, was elected to the House in 1942 and to the Senate in 1944, was one of the 96 signers of the Southern manifesto attacking the 1954 Supreme Court decision on segregated schools. A longtime critic of Eisenhower Administration foreign policy, Bill Fulbright nonetheless wasted no time in getting in touch with State Secretary John Foster Dulles, promised his cooperation...
...After screening 40 football coaches for the job vacated by retiring Earl Blaik. Army went to its own practice field for his successor: Dale Hall. 34, for the past three seasons defensive backfield coach under Blaik. Hall, whose bespectacled, scholarly look belies his record as an all-round athlete, was an all-American basketball player at West Point, played halfback on Army teams of the Blanchard-Davis era, resigned his infantry commission to take up coaching...
...must quickly develop a realistic and sensible attitude toward Cuban internal affairs.The president of the student body of Havana University lies dead after being shot down in the gutter before the university. A student resistance movement was named after the date of his death, March 13, 1957. His successor met a similar fate...
...going to be really running this government or not running it at all. Privately, Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona submitted his resignation, demanding that Castro join the Cabinet or stop dictating the show. Castro drove to Miro's home and patched things up. Castro's choice as successor "if I am killed": his brother Raul, 28, chill-eyed commander in Santiago, where 100 have been shot...
Padded Couch. The capsule will be launched by an intercontinental ballistic missile (presumably an Atlas or its successor). The pilot will lie on his back on a padded couch to reduce the effects of g forces, reckoned to hit more than seven times the force of gravity during the acceleration after takeoff. In his tiny enclosure, he will be surrounded by an atmosphere of endurable temperature and pressure. He will have food and water in case he feels like eating or drinking, and a two-way voice radio will keep him in touch with the ground stations. There will...