Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lovely Rival. King Hassan even produced a rival for Jackie in his lovely young sister, Princess Lalla Nezha, 22, who was greeted with a bouquet of red roses. All the proper protocol was laid on, from a 50-yd. red carpet to a spit and polish honor guard. "We are proud to welcome you. Your Majesty," said the President to the King. "Your country was the first to recognize the U.S. in the most difficult days of our Revolution."* King Hassan responded by saying that he had come to the U.S. "to renew my acquaintance with your people, to meet...
...Wrong Arm of the Law. Sneaky Pete Sellers as a raffish Raffles heads a gang of candid-camera jewel robbers, meets his match when a rival gang, disguised as policemen, muscles in on the racket...
...lets the faculty win. Given complete autonomy, Exeter's departments produce strong minds and pioneering ventures; the current faculty has more than 20 textbooks to its credit. On the other hand. Saltonstall suffers the fate of "democratic" administrators: criticism for being indecisive. In contrast to Andover, its aggressive rival. Exeter has raised only one new building in 30 years. But it is a place of such impeccable teaching that last fall it got 73 National Merit Scholarship finalists, more than any other U.S. school...
...couch: Should she marry a button-down stuffed shirt or donate free love to a beardless beatnik? Mama's husband (Howard Da Silva) lands on a putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama joins daughter on the couch in her own folksy way: "I like a harder mattress." The kindly psychoanalyst offers her some open-sesame seeds of wisdom-be permissive. At play's end, everyone is (Freud should pardon the expression...
...Cortina, after the first two days of the demanding brackets, loops and paragraph threes of the compulsory figures, she was 59 points ahead of her closest rival. Just the same, she hung around the rink until 11 p.m., watching other skaters work. Then she went out and put on the most dazzling free-skating performance of her career...