Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mondale has a potentially powerful rival in the state's three-term former Governor, Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman. Freeman has not indicated that he wants the job, but he has let it be known that he wants to leave Agriculture. Last week Freeman was vacationing in Minnesota -his first week off in three years-and some of his Washington aides thought it might be significant. Two other possibilities: John Blatnik, 53, an 18-year Congressman from Minnesota's iron-range area, who is backed by Senator Eugene McCarthy and officials of the United Steelworkers Union; Mrs. Eugenie...
...Square anniversary parade, Brezhnev wound up old Rodion Malinovsky, his Defense Minister, for a rocket-rattling speech aimed as much at Chou's ears as at the West's. As new thermonuclear behemoths rumbled by -among them a submarine missile which was meant to rival...
...groomed such potential Prime Ministers as Maudling, Heath and Macleod, was relieved of his job as deputy Prime Minister and the party's most dynamic idea man. Butler's demise seemed inevitable after a pre-election newspaper interview in which Sir Alec's old rival had sardonically hinted at a Tory defeat...
...Sato is liked by business executives," observed a Tokyo industrialist. "Kono is liked by barbers and taxi drivers." Both men - Eisaku Sato, 63, and Ichiro Kono, 66 - are even more warmly admired by rival factions of the ruling Conservative-Liberal Party. Last week they became hot rivals in a power struggle for the premiership of Japan. Their opportunity came when Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda, who has been hospitalized for eight weeks with a throat tumor, handed in his resignation...
According to one reporter, Leon Jaworski, a Texas lawyer and Wirtz's main rival, has "been making noises about his availability for the job, which indicates he certainly hasn't been tapped...