Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Russia hesitated to intercede, for fear of alienating the Communists in Laos and North Viet Nam. Soviet intervention at this stage might turn them increasingly toward Red China, Russia's rival, for support in their revolution. But Nikita Khrushchev was also under pressure from a different quarter. In Washington, President Kennedv made it clear that he ex pected Moscow to put a stop to Pathet Lao pressure and live up to the Geneva agreement. "We will, I think, have a chance to see in the next few days whether we are going to have a destruction of that accord...
...joined the company in 1931, found it with no blueprints for its weapons, no research or engineering department, no catalogue of its thousands of tools, by World War II had so changed things that Smith & Wesson cornered 75% of U.S. Army revolver orders, has since all but pushed rival Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co. out of the sidearms business; of a heart attack; in Newton, Mass...
Respectful Distance. Xerox's profits are big because it costs the company only $2.500 to make each 914. which rents for an average $5.000 a year (rates: $95 monthly and 3.5? for every copy over 2,000). American Photocopy, SCM Corp., and Charles Bruning Co. now sell rival electrostatic copiers, but they require special papers. Xerox (which dropped the Haloid from its name in 1961) will come out with a smaller, desktop 813 dry copier next fall (probable rent: $40 a month), is developing a machine to apply xerography to facsimile transmission of documents by radio waves. Though Wilson...
...continuing speculation. Jakob moves out of literature into reality-like a friend who suddenly, for no easily discernible reason, commits suicide. Why? The question lingers, humbling but provocative. In the novel's larger frame the reader is forced to feel and appreciate the equivocal human concerns and rival pulls between East and West in intimate human terms that propaganda cliches used by both sides too easily dismiss...
...week, on the eve of what they thought would be the end of the strike, the Times and the Trib announced that they were doubling their prices to a dime-something the Trib has been itching to do for years but could not face as long as its chief rival sold for a nickel. To herald its return, the Trib printed a giveaway, four-page "appetizer" edition advising New Yorkers in bold headlines to COUNT THE HOURS TILL WE'RE BACK...