Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warren Hearnes, 41, Missouri's Dem-ocratic candidate, scorned his G.O.P. rival Ethan Allen Hitchcock Shepley, 68. Said Hearnes: "He has only one chance to win, and that's if Goldwater is a sensation." Hearnes was right, won in a walkaway over Shepley, former chancellor of St. Louis' prestigious Washington University and the strongest candidate fielded by the G.O.P. in more than a decade. The Governor-elect is a West Point graduate who served ten years in the state legislature and the past four as secretary of state. > Republican John Chafee, 42, won in Rhode Island...
...John A. Volpe, 55, a former Republican Governor, campaigned with vigah in Massachusetts, claimed greater administrative experience than his rival, Lieutenant Governor Francis Xavier Bellotti, who had upset Incumbent Democrat Endicott ("Chub") Peabody in the primary. Both Italians, the candidates tried to ensnare one another in a spaghetti bowl of corruption charges and sales-tax arguments (Volpe for, Bellotti against). Volpe spun his pasta fastah, won in a close...
Hewlett finished ahead of his Huskie rival; B.C.'s-Bill Norris was third and the Crimson's Dave Allen and Bill Crain finished fourth and fifth...
Quiet Wishes. No one expects violent explosions in Jamaica in the near future. Jamaicans are a smiling, gentle people with an abiding respect for British-style law and order. Yet Bustamante's cousin and arch political rival, Norman Washington Manley, 71, has a point when he charges that the government has failed to get the country moving as fast as it should. In private, some of Bustamante's own ministers tend to agree...
Against Satirists & Cynics. Welcoming men of all faiths, M.R.A. claims that it is not a rival to existing churches. Rome suspects that it is, and many Catholic bishops have warned their flocks against joining. A number of Protestant leaders have attacked its ideology as essentially unBiblical, even though M.R.A. is about as rigid as the Old Testament prophets on the need for strict standards of personal conduct. Good members of M.R.A. do not smoke or drink, and even if married are urged to sexual restraint. Last week Peter Howard warned Britain's new Prime Minister Harold Wilson against "satirists...