Word: contendere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tough, intelligent, determined and, now, icily angry, Oxford-trained Economist Hugh Gaitskell had saved his claim to party leadership and served notice on the somewhat chapfallen neutralists that they had won only one round. But with the intraparty fight still unsettled, the Labor Party looks as if it will not...
The Crimson triumph ended a skein of 11 regular-season victories by the Ephmen, and avenged a 0-0 tie in Cambridge last fall that kept Harvard out of the NCAA tournament. The Crimson now must be considered a strong contender for both the Ivy League and New England League...
Mac's Mount. What chiefly outraged the M.P.s was the fact that the new For eign Secretary was a peer, and therefore could not be cross-examined in the House of Commons. "Utterly retrograde," cried Tory Backbencher Gerald Nabarro. "Effrontery," shouted members of the Conservative M.P.s Foreign Policy Committee...
Never in recent times has a presidential contender of either party earned, wheedled, extorted-and perhaps deserved-such handsome press notices as were flung like roses in Kennedy's triumphal path at Los Angeles last week. The cartoonists were still having trouble capturing their man, though they were trying...
No More Complaints. Much of Kennedy's good press was appropriate and fitting. As the front-running, hardest-driving and by far the most engaging contender, Kennedy made more news than anyone else, and deserved the extensive pla'y he received. His well-lubricated public-relations machine was...