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...Hotelkeepers' Association school in Lausanne. It is, he insists, the best such school in the world, and he is proud of the fact that he finished eighth in a class of 60 in cooking, sixth in table service ("I'm a bit rusty, but I could still outdo almost every New York waiter...
...have been snapping and snarling at one another ever since they appeared on newsstands after World War II. They fake stories, trick each other out of pictures, keep plenty of lawyers busy enjoining a competitor's publication at the slightest excuse. In their early days, they tried to outdo each other with atrocity stories about Hitler and the war. Later they switched to a kind of striptease in which each week's winner was the magazine offering the most revealing picture of a peeled fraulein. More recently they have begun to bid top prices for memoirs of political...
...their cars, Model A restorers love other Model A re storers more than anything else in the world, and the annual convention is the high point of every year. Restorers admiringly-and enviously-go over every inch of each other's antiques. Flourishing "before" pictures, they try to outdo each other with stories of mileage, speed, and prices offered (top price on record is $6,000 for a two-door Phaeton). But the moment of truth is the judging. After a day's parade through Detroit and on across the border into Windsor, Ont., the owners took their...
...intense continuing rivalry for control of the Communist camp was most evident in Russia's and China's at tempts to outdo each other in promises of aid to the Communist Viet Cong. After only a hint from Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev that Moscow might send men to North Viet Nam, Peking came screaming from its corner with promises of its own "volunteers." Brezhnev's Red Square speech, however, was far from an outright pledge of troops, and Peking's promise was just as carefully hedged...
Syria's shaky Baath Socialist government seems determined to outdo Nasser in its hate campaign against America. Daily, the press, radio and television vilify the U.S. for what Information Minister Mashhour Zeitoun calls "America's policy of sabotage and espionage" in Syria. Attassi, although he was nephew of one of Syria's former Presidents and a cousin of Noureddin Attassi, the second-ranking man in the present Baath government, had to be hanged as a warning to all agents of "imperialism, capitalism and Zionism." In this atmosphere of hysteria, the $100 million in aid that...