Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...engines, the big, unlimited-class hydroplanes just about fly-touching the water only with the propeller and two sponsons each the size of a water ski. A patch of rough water can send a boat somersaulting to destruction, and woe to the hapless driver who gets caught behind a rival's arcing 30-ft.-high rooster-tail wake. Last week, as 200,000 boat-racing buffs lined the shores of Seattle's Lake Washington, twelve of the big hydros took off after one another in the 54th annual Gold Cup regatta. It looked more like the Battle...
...violence. Portugal's victory over the rebels was greatly aided by the bitter hostility between Holden Roberto's U.P.A. (Union of the Angolan Peoples) and the Communist-backed M.P.L.A. (Movement for the Liberation of Angola) led by Mario de Andrade, a Sorbonne-educated, Red-lining mulatto. The rival groups often seemed to hate each other worse than they hated the Portuguese; both Roberto and Andrade were the targets of assassination attempts by the other faction. Should the two organizations ever reach a truce, Angola could once more be drenched in blood. The rebels now have automatic weapons...
...clouted nine in 17 games, and the Yankees hurtled from fourth place to first in a single week, ran off nine victories in a row. Yankee bats might turn cold again, but there was still the Yankees' subtle pressure. "You look at the Yankee line-up," said a rival manager "and you say there's no reason why we shouldn't clobber these guys. Hell, they had to score four runs in the eighth inning to beat West Point in an exhibition game. Then you get in that Yankee Stadium, and you see those Yankee uniforms...
Death of a Highbrow, by Frank Swinnerton. England's foremost man of letters relives a literary feud with a dead rival and decides the man was not so much his enemy as his friend...
Although the strike was the immediate cause of Hearst's selling out, the 125-year-old Sentinel has been moribund for years. To William Randolph Hearst Jr., editor in chief of the Hearst papers, the trouble with the Sentinel was the rival Journal's economic superiority: "There was no need for an advertiser to take another paper. The Sentinel just didn't run enough advertising to make a go of it." Last year, with 16,700,000 ad lines to the Journal's 51,200,000, the Sentinel lost...