Word: contender
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sadat also had to contend with unexpected opposition inside his own government. Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy, who had thought that Sadat's visit to Israel was a long-range proposal rather than an immediate prospect, resigned when the trip was suddenly scheduled. "I am firmly against it," Fahmy told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn in Cairo. Sadat immediately offered Fahmy's job to Egypt's second-ranking diplomat, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mohamed Riad. But he resigned also, in what began to resemble an Egyptian Saturday Night Massacre. Sadat then named Butros Ghali, a member of Egypt's Coptic...
...curse the bad breaks and the rotten luck all you want, but the competition doesn't get any easier. Each year there are heavies like Princeton and UMass to contend with, Providence has recruited another boatload of Irish hordes, and perennial top guns such as Kurt Alitz of Army and the Flora brothers combine to make life exciting, if also often miserable, for the Crimson...
...multiflex is a great offense, Restic appears blind to the fact that perhaps Harvard should not have used that particular alignment this year. And if Restic honestly believed, after the loss of Tim Davenport in the Columbia game, that he should have continued with the multi-flex, I would contend that he does not fully understand his own creation...
Spielberg must, in addition, contend with the comet trail of Star Wars, the summer sleeper directed by George Lucas that now threatens to surpass Jaws' $400 million worldwide gross. Close Encounters is also a science fiction film, and thus it will inevitably be compared to Star Wars. Since Spielberg's movie cost almost twice as much, Columbia Pictures, which financed Close Encounters, has gone to unusual lengths to protect its investment. From the outset, the film has been shrouded in secrecy to ensure that its suspense not be blown prior to release. Cast and crew have been forbidden to discuss...
Though there was no obstinate mechanical shark to contend with, Close Encounters was an arduous picture to make. It was shot during a five-month period in early 1976 and took more than a year to edit. The locations?several of them deserts?spread from California to India; the launching-pad set in Mobile, Ala., used in the film's climax is six times as large as Hollywood's biggest sound stage, Spielberg "was forever screwing up schedules like a whirlwind," says Melinda Dillon, the film's female lead, recalling the strain. "He worked all night, every night?catching...