Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...European cars have front wheel drive, and both Renault and Peugeot announced last week that they would market new models in 1965. But Detroit has always been wary, discouraged by the performance and cost of experimental models. The Holiday is thus a bold G.M. step into an area where rival U.S. automakers and even other G.M divisions have feared to tread...
...NCAA, which had occasionally argued with the AAU over the details of meets, organized a rival body two years ago to fight the AAU for control of amateur track and field...
...NCAA's current position is that college athletes should compete only in meets sponsored by this rival group, the United States Track and Field Federation...
...getting plenty of recognition and precious few snickers. Maybe its teams were still no match for the titans of the N.F.L. - although those were fightin' words in Buffalo and San Diego. But there was one contest in which the A.F.L. was every bit the equal of its older rival: spending money. Armed with a $1,250,000 advance against its new five-year TV contract with NBC −and with orders to "get competitive" at any cost -the fledgling league plunged gleefully into a dollar-for-dollar battle with the N.F.L. to sign this year's bumper crop...
...victory over Mississippi, favored (by 10 points) and Bluebonnet Bowl-bound; at Oxford, Miss. Trailing 6-3 at half time (on a 48-yd. field goal by State's Justin Canale), Ole Miss rallied for 14 points in the second half, still lost to its cross-state rival for the first time in 18 years-ever since Johnny Vaught, the nation's winningest major college coach, took over as boss of the Rebels...