Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Standing only a few feet away was McCormack's rival for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator-Teddy Kennedy, now rigid with shock and suppressed anger...
...City National Bank, "a lot of people think you are a success only because of family. In the case of David Rockefeller, bankers hold him in high esteem in his own right." Echoes Harold H. Helm, chairman of Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., an arch Chase Manhattan rival: "David is an effective, able all-round banker, who makes keener competition for us because of his ability." With a touch of Latin hyperbole, a Caracas banker enthuses: "Rockefeller is the most important and capable banker in New York, therefore in the world." Painful Burden. Such freely given trib utes...
Argentina. The country's military rulers, having unconstitutionally taken power, were now fighting among themselves. Rival cliques sent their tanks through the streets of Buenos Aires to make menacing gestures at one another; three new War Ministers were appointed in the space of four days, until finally a "neutral" general was found who for the moment satisfied both sides. Argentina's dogged Economics Minister Alvaro Alsogaray, who recently returned from the U.S. with $500 million in loans, warned that the nation could not continue much longer in a state of "anarchy." Alsogaray has not been able...
...Says a rival publisher: "Sir Frank will stop at nothing to save a quid or earn one." Yet he has been known to bet $7,-ooo on the flip of a coin, and some of that same compulsive gambler's plunge led him to challenge for the America...
...Marlene Dietrich, Dick Powell, Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, and Maria Montez (a prize exhibit because she was warned in 1951 that the first week of September, an adverse time in her chart, would bring her danger from water, and drowned in her bathtub on Sept. 7). Righter's rival is veteran Stargazer Blanca Holmes, who boasts her own long list of big names, including the late Marilyn Monroe, Paula and Susan Strasberg and Clifford Odets...