Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ballot, but others were active too. Thailand pressed for Bangkok, which is becoming Southeast Asia's regional U.N. center. Manila boasted that its schools turn out plentiful trained personnel for banks. Bids were made by Teheran, Kuala Lumpur and Colombo. Finally, the Philippine delegation suavely stymied lobbying for rival cities with a reception for conference-goers and a lengthy dinner cruise around Manila Bay, ostensibly to celebrate their bank governor's birthday. That seemed to clinch things. On the final ballot next day, the Asian nations gave Manila nine votes to Tokyo's eight. In order...
...question may sound foolish, but it does give the movie consistency. When evidence turns up that Ray is a rival author, the Almighty is more or less exonerated, leaving this inspirational British thriller with no suspect worth a second thought. Actor Nigel Patrick directed Nobody and also cast himself as the sleuth-priest, thereby risking double jeopardy. The devil knows...
...away the myth was a hero's job. Schlesinger, unlike his rival, really tried, and no quibbles about the book should mask the fact that his achievement is extraordinary. He is, to begin with, a master narrator; the elegance of the book will astonish those who read Life's patched-together excepts. But an even greater achievement is his knowledge of what was going on in the world while John Kennedy was President. His store of detail is prodigious, and his use of his carefully dug-up gems masterly. He illustrates the disquieting attitude of the press towards the radical...
Three years ago, in the months that followed the military overthrow of President Arturo Frondizi, the country ricocheted from crisis to crisis as rival army factions fought bitterly for control. Ongania, then commander of the army's crack motorized cavalry corps, emerged as the muscle behind a group of enlightened officers determined to reestablish constitutional government. He sent tanks rumbling into the city and, after a series of sharp, bloody clashes, routed the army's Colorado faction, which stood for old-style, jack-booted dictatorship. Illia's peaceful election ten months later consolidated Ongania's triumph...
...hardy pilot (Nigel Davenport) sets off to seek help. An old German (Harry Andrews) and a professorial type (Theodore Bikel) are eliminated one way or another by the fittest male, Stuart Whitman, who is left to look out for his rifle, his woman (Susannah York) and his injured rival (Stanley Baker...