Word: rival
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Like Greece. The U.S. farming community, never noted for consistency, today embraces almost as many splinter groups as the Greek Parliament. The Farm Bureau's biggest and noisiest rival, the Denver-headquartered National Farmers Union, is at the opposite end of the ideological and political spectrum. Headed since 1940 by Kansas-born Jim Patton, 62, Farmers Union has 750,000 members, strongly supports the Government's hand on the plow. Says Patton, whose favorite pastime is taking pokes at the Farm Bureau: "What Charlie Shuman doesn't realize is that we've got the welfare state...
...size of a Dictaphone, they can be rented from American Telephone & Telegraph and other phone companies for about $25 monthly or be purchased outright from Robosonics Inc., the largest-selling private manufacturer, and R.S.V.P., its West Coast rival, for about $400 and up, depending on the number of frills. Robosonics' latest is a $700 version which will take up to six hours of messages, aimed at firms like meat wholesalers, who can thus collect overnight orders. R.S.V.P. is bringing out a model which allows the owner to call in and change his own recorded message. Tentative price...
...highest pug (7 ft. 1% in.). Instead, he will accept a $55,000 annual raise, to $125,000, to remain the world's highest-salaried basketball player. After he signed his new three-year contract with the Philadelphia 76ers, Wilt thought of a good friend and bitter rival, the 6-ft. 10-in. pillar of the Boston Celtics. Chuckled the Stilt: "I hope it upsets Bill Russell enough so maybe he'll quit...
Discreet Deletion. When Schlesinger's articles first appeared, his rival Kennedy memoirist Ted Sorensen congratulated him in a letter: "I read your articles with admiration and envy. No one has shown that you impaired in any way the national security or even our national interest." Later, Sorensen apparently changed his mind and joined the chorus of critics. "It is not in the national interest," he said at a press conference, "to destroy a man's influence and usefulness." To show that he was as good as his word, Sorensen promptly deleted from the galleys of his own book...
...about circus life) and The Circle Home (about boxing), flat on characterization and rickety on plot, but praised him as a stylist. The Peacock's Tail is the story of a youne New Yorker's trials after he loses his girl Sandy to a Jewish rival. He becomes a refugee in a West Side hotel inhabited by whores and derelicts. Most of the book recounts his oscillating between Sandy's upper-class East Side apartment and his West Side slum. As for style, here are some examples: ' 'Wolf, wolf,' he woofed"; "she took...