Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposed merger would create the free world's largest single line-a transportation goliath with 298 planes, 80,000 miles of routes touching six continents, and nearly $1 billion in annual revenues. Since TWA is Pan Am's only U.S. rival on European and Middle Eastern routes,* the merger would also, in effect, make Pan Am the U.S.'s chosen instrument on many of the world's most heavily traveled airlanes...
...nice of France to let the U.S. have a look at Mona Lisa (see PEOPLE). Unimpressed, reporters doodled on their note pads. The President kept them doodling by turning to a "more physical side" and coming out strong for togetherness in athletics. He sounded urgent in his warning that rival U.S. amateur organizations must stop bickering or there may be no U.S. Olympic team...
...change is at the Defense Ministry, for it brings to the fore a new personality who will rival Schroder in the C.D.U. echelon below Erhard. Successor to Strauss is a North German named Kai-Uwe von Hassel,* 49, who was born in Tanganyika, Germany's former East African colony. Von Hassel's agility in C.D.U. party matters has long marked him as a comer...
Hard Times. Despite the obvious slippage in Adenauer's power, few of his ambitious rivals are eager to put too much pressure on him or criticize him publicly. A Socialist leader explained his party's hesitancy by saying: "We cannot become known as icon smashers." In every rival's mind is the continued reverence for der Alte displayed by the German people. In a recent EMNID public opinion poll to choose the "World's Most Admired Man," 24% of the West Germans picked Adenauer. Albert Schweitzer came second with 8%, and leaders like Charles de Gaulle...
...vast white beard seems like God him self and not every adult would be in a hurry to climb onto His lap. One Victoria, B.C., housewife organized a protest when a store had Santa Claus arriving in a helicopter, only to be followed three days later by a rival store's Santa landing by parachute. Confused her children hopelessly she said, and made them miserable...