Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worst subway accidents in New York City's history, and the New York Times emptied its news room to cover the story. Three dozen Times reporters galloped to the scene. They not only outnumbered all rival reporting teams, but proved almost as numerous as the accident victims...
...grand jurors also indicted two upstanding steelmen: James P. Barton, 61, a plain-talking, conservative middle manager for U.S. Steel, and William J. Stephens, 57, Jones & Laughlin's gregarious, hard-selling president. Stephens, who worked for rival Bethlehem at the time of the alleged conspiracy, is the most important executive ever to be singled out in price-fixing charges. If convicted, the two men could be sent to prison for up to one year and fined $50,000; the eight companies also could be fined $50,000 each and be sued by injured customers for uncounted millions in triple...
With the fanfare of a royal birth, International Business Machines Corp. last week ushered in a new tribe of supercomputers called System/360. Some of the many sweeping claims that IBM makes for System/360 were promptly disputed by rival manufacturers. Nonetheless, its introduction spotlighted important trends in design and application. The system's basic working parts are "microminiaturized modules": complicated circuits formed by printing with electro-conductive ink on thin ceramic plates half an inch square. To the tiny metal networks are attached transistors and diodes so small that 5,000 of them fit into a thimble...
...occasional $7,000 a week singing at places like Las Vegas' Riviera and $3,000 at Manhattan's Basin Street East. Her three albums have made her at present the world's best-selling female recording star on LP. But it is one thing to rival all the Patti Pages in pressed plastic and quite another to take over Broadway...
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson's administration had long delayed such a drastic step, though a S.I.U. walkout and the dynamiting of a Canadian freighter manned by a rival union last fall indicated that there would be no waterfront peace as long as Banks was in power. For the past five months, government-appointed trustees have run the S.I.U. in an effort to clean it up and get the members themselves to vote Banks...