Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indian troops. Though they started out armed only with some old Japanese rifles and their traditional dao, a long knife shaped like a meat ax, the estimated 5,000 rebels now have relatively modern weapons, some captured from the Indians, but most supplied by India's subcontinental rival, Pakistan. Last week, with the Baptist Church serving as mediator, the Naga rebels agreed to lay down their daos for a month-long armistice and an official peace conference...
California, which is the only crew with a reasonable chance to beat Harvard, has drawn less stiff opposition for the first heat. Cal's top rival should be the newly born Laconia "A" boat, an amalgam of the best rowers from several college crews in the east and midwest...
...thinks Barbra Streisand is "the major star to come on the horizon in the last five years." So last week, after an arduous courtship of her and an all-out battle with rival suitors, the network was happy to announce a ten-year marriage contract...
...jars and beer cans, aluminum cable and sodium chlorate, the U.S. Supreme Court is fashioning a broad extension of the Government's trustbusting powers. In two decisions last week, and a third in the past month, the court looked sternly upon mergers, whether in the same or in rival industries; it also raised new barriers against the acquisition of smaller competitors or the forming of joint ventures. In effect, it put corporate giants on notice that most future growth must come from within rather than by merger...
Vigorous Turn. With Nehru gone, the gaze of India and the world turned to his successor. Flying back to New Delhi from Allahabad, Shastri was officially installed as Prime Minister and turned vigorously to the tasks before him. A conciliator by nature, he hoped to bring his principal rival, Morarji Desai, into his new Cabinet. Spare, ascetic ex-Finance Minister Desai demanded that he be given a post that would, in effect, make him deputy prime minister and No. 2 man in India. When Shastri countered with the offer of the No. 3 position in the Cabinet, just under that...