Word: counterpart
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Watching Stopped. For years, the Justice Department has kept an eye on the joint operations of the Tucson Daily Citizen and its morning counterpart, the Arizona Daily Star. Since the Citizen was ailing, Government trustbusters watched suspiciously but did not interfere when the papers adopted the Albuquerque Plan in 1940. In 1965, however, they stopped watching and started acting when the fully recovered Citizen bought out its competitor for $9,999,790. The Justice Department filed suit against the merger and contended that the 25-year operating agreement discouraged competition...
...Rear Admiral John V. Smith, son of the late Marine General Holland M. ("Howlin' Mad") Smith, protested both the Pueblo incident and an attempted attack on South Korea's President Chung Hee Park by a North Korean suicide squad earlier in the week. His Communist counterpart, Major General Pak Chung Kuk-known to American officers as "Frog Face"-claimed that the U.S. ship had been caught spying in North Korean waters and that the suicide squad was actually made up of "patriotic" South Koreans. To that, Smith angrily retorted: "I want to tell you, Pak, that the evidence...
...first period on two scores by Cavanagh, one by Barker, and one off the stick of left defenseman David Jones. Jones, described by Coach Gene Kinasewich as probably the "hardest shooter at Harvard, including the varsity," took advantage of a bad clear by his Dartmouth counterpart to drill a wrist shot from the blue line over the Hanover goalie's shoulder...
...will take weeks of work to cut them all free. Some cars were doubtless swept downstream, and police estimated that it would be a long time-if ever-until a full count could be made of the victims. Mean while, Ohio Governor James Rhodes and his West Virginia counterpart, Hulett Carlson Smith, were pressing for an investigation to determine why the Silver Bridge failed...
...well to see it as U.N. headquarters. Shirley Hazzard calls it simply the Organization-though she worked at the U.N. for ten years. The characters represent many nations, but, above all, they represent one way of life. What they do and say provides a fictional counterpart to William Whyte's The Organization...