Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Comedian Dick Gregory, who is also appearing at the hungry i, has seized on his new competitor's specialty for his own act just as easily as Father Boyd joined an entertainers' union. "Watch out," said Gregory. "The Rev. Boyd had a heckler last week, and he turned him into a pillar of salt." The peril of mixing show business and religion is that the quip may become more important than the Word...
...examination, as it turned out, was perfunctory. Lined up in single file, the 234 female athletes paraded past three female gynecologists. "They let you walk by," said one competitor afterward. "Then they asked you to turn and face them, and that was it." I.A.A.F. officials said they would have doctors on hand at all major future meets in the interest of preserving la différence...
Land of the Free has been approved, with minor revisions, for use in all California public schools and in such large cities as Kansas City and St. Louis. So far, its main competitor is a revised edition of Houghton Mifflin's This Is America's Story...
...biggest bourse of them all?the New York Stock Exchange?Merrill Lynch has a hand in 12% of the round-lot (100 shares or more) and 20% of the odd-lot (less than 100 shares) transactions. Its capital totals $148.2 million, almost three times that of its nearest competitor, Bache & Co. The vaults in Merrill Lynch's headquarters on Pine Street (two blocks from Wall) contain $13 billion in negotiable securities. In all its transactions last year, the big brokerage house grossed $228 million for a net profit of $30.8 million. More than ever, it fits the name that Wall...
...sales of its smooth light Pilsner beer expanding nicely, Denmark's Carlsberg Brewery this summer is pushing completion of a 12,000-ton-capacity barley silo at its plant in the Copenhagen suburb of Valby. Nobody keeps a more interested eye on the project than Carlsberg's competitor, United Breweries, which produces Tuborg. But the watchful eye is not at all due to envy. On the contrary: Tuborg is paying half of the silo's cost and hopes that the facility pays...