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Word: rival (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series, it tosses some barbs at the television industry ("the smallest show on earth"), and provides a rollicking scene of vitriol and mass confusion among the show's writers. Preston is surrounded by a fine supporting cast in this scene, particularly Leon Janney as the executive of a rival studio and Phil Leeds as the inventor of a machine which provides canned laughter for TV shows...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Nobody Loves an Albatross | 12/5/1963 | See Source »

Howard Durfee took a quick 8-2 lead over Don Frederickson in a 137-pound bout and then had to hang on as his experienced rival came from behind to make it 8-6 in the last period. But Durfee reassumed command and was ahead 12-6 at the match's end. Brian Conley, undefeated as a freshman last year, used an assortment of leg rides effectively in decisioning Marland Williams 5-3 at 147 pounds...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Crimson Matmen Pulverize M.I.T.; Chace, Pereira Spark 21-7 Victory | 12/4/1963 | See Source »

...growing at a dizzy rate on the Central Valley flatlands near Sacramento, Davis aims to be something more: a first-rate university with a vast campus of 3,710 acres. Already it has 4,900 students and 300,000 books; soon it will triple both, becoming the rural rival of Cal's urban jewels, Berkeley and U.C.L.A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Universities: Cow College Conversion | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

...Swedes need backstopping, and last week a U.S. contender was announced by Colorado's Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies. Next spring the institute will launch a Nobel rival called the Aspen Award-a $30,000 prize to the one person in the world who "each year makes the greatest contribution to the humanities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prizes: A Rival for Nobel | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

Gallery openings in Manhattan are beginning to rival the opera in silken elegance and the subway for sheer squeeze. Last week's opening of the new Marlborough-Gerson Gallery looked as if it was getting in the last word, if not the entire madding crowd in Michelangelo's Last Judgment. In chilly evening winds, great red and green banners flapped from flagpoles outside the gallery's sixth floor facade above 57th Street. Nothing could dissuade the 2,50 art lovers, beehives and beatle-cuts alike, from donning black tie and white brocade theater coats to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Going for Baroque | 11/22/1963 | See Source »

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