Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rest. For the U.S., blonde, hefty (5 ft. 5^ in., 140 Ibs.) Darlene Hard, 23, an ex-waitress from California who fuels her hard-hitting attack with a voracious appetite ("I just can't pass up anything on the menu"), was a recognized player of championship caliber. By contrast, her opponent. Brazil's Maria Bueno, 19, daughter of a Sao Paulo veterinarian, had never quite lived up to her potential. A player of fiery temperament, Maria had not been able to beat Darlene in their six previous matches...
...Erhard. To CBS, Adenauer confided that he planned to stay in office as Chancellor through the 1961 elections and expected to have a voice in selecting his successor, a clear hint that he might keep Erhard out of the job even then. To Paris-Match, Adenauer boasted that, in contrast to Erhard, he was a "100% politician" with a worldwide acquaintance among the world's leaders, including Khrushchev...
Innocents Abroad. In sharp contrast, Johansson had turned his training into what often seemed like a lark in the country. He moved into a $100,000 cottage at the celebrity-wooing Grossinger's in the Catskills. From Sweden he imported his parents, his brothers, his sister, his brother's fiancee and his own fiancee of five years' standing-in-waiting, Birgit Lundgren, a comely and compact brunette of 23. With Birgit on his mighty right arm, Johansson even made occasional forays into the nightclub whirl of Manhattan. In the gym Johansson worked hard on the bags...
...borrow $17,400 for a four-unit dwelling. By virtually geometrical progression, this mounts to $1,187,195 in 20 years. Arguing from the low foreclosure rate, Nickerson claims that an average man with "average luck" has a 400-to-1 chance of succeeding in real estate. By contrast, "Fifty percent [of new businesses fail] in two years." Arguing from population growth, Nickerson assumes an ever-ready and probably an ever-rising market for his type of real estate deal...
...American citizen, not a British subject." For the next four weeks, though they will grumble darkly at the cost and occasionally disparage the Crown itself, Canadians will turn out to see the Crown in the person of their Queen, Elizabeth II. Hers is a task much in contrast to the imperial role of her grandparents (later George V and Queen Mary) when they toured India in 1905 (see cut). Now the prides, loyalties and sympathies that Canadians feel are shared, in some degree at least, by the quarter of the earth's population that belongs to the Commonwealth...