Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plaster Woman in a Restaurant Booth. Giacometti came, stared at Mark di Suvero's jumble of wood beams titled Champion, and exclaimed, "That frightens me!" At the vernissage, César, France's leading sculptor of crushed cars, cast an evil eye on his U.S. competitor, John Chamberlain, but hailed the rest: "We feel much more affinity with America than with the School of Paris...
...Only a breakdown could beat the Scotsman now: his nearest competitor, Parnelli Jones, was H min. behind. On the 136th lap, Clark ducked into the pits for the last time waved away a new set of goggles and a glass of water, roared out again in 24.7 sec. His orders were "Take it easy"-and Clark did, throttling back to 150 m.p.h., then 145. At the end, he was 5 mi. ahead...
...highest rating by 300,000, and his estimated $19 million in sponsor billings this year will edge Paar's top by $4,000,000. Carson makes it look so easy that others have been prompted to get in on the act. ABC has been running a competitor, Nightlife, for almost three months, and Westinghouse Broadcasting Co. syndicates Merv Griffin, a cheery-faced former singer who was once mentioned as a Paar replacement. The net effect of both shows to date on Carson's: nil. His New York area rating is five times their combined total...
Since April 20, when the Newspaper Guild struck the Baltimore Sun and other unions refused to cross the picket line, Baltimore has had no newspaper worthy of the name. The city's only other daily, Hearst's News-American, shut down in support of its competitor, and by last week a disheartened NLRB examiner saw no sign of an end to the strike. Management and the Guild, said he, "are at a total stalemate. If it isn't settled soon, I think it'll go on for a long time. At the bargaining sessions, they...
...company's president in 1930. Peterkin joined Morton after getting a degree in geology from Princeton, took over as president after his father's death in 1941, when the company's sales were only $12.9 million. Under his aggressive direction, Morton passed its biggest competitor, International Salt, in the mid-'40s, began producing as well as marketing in every region of the country and overseas. In addition to its eleven U.S. plants, Morton has six in Canada and another eight in Latin America and the West Indies. It owns the largest salt-research laboratory...