Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bridge on the River Kwai by offering a guarantee of $100,000, four times the top offer of his competitors. He pours out $600,000 a year to plug his shows by television, radio and massive five-column newspaper advertisements. ''Looka that," he says scornfully of a rival's smaller ad. "It's like a death notice...
...opposing Moslem F.L.N. factions opened up on each other with everything but bullets. While moderate Premier Benyoussef Benkhedda tried to spread his influence from Algiers to the southeast, his bitter rival, radical Vice Premier ben Bella, entered western Algeria for a triumphal march to Oran. After a brief stop at Marnia, his birthplace near the Moroccan border, Ben Bella and his ever-lengthening motorcade drove on to the city of Tlemcen (pop. 80,000). Thousands of veiled women and turbaned men lined the streets, while hundreds of pigtailed little girls in the national colors-white dresses, red sashes, green kerchiefs...
...first half of the 22-day, 2,656-mile grind. Van Looy was knocked out of the Tour when a close-crowding photographer's motorcycle struck a rock and catapulted into his bicycle, spilling the 28-year-old Belgian into the path of 19 other racers. Said a rival racer: "Whoever wins now, his victory won't be complete. He won't have beaten Van Looy...
...stunned newsmen pointed out that the rules of diplomacy require that one or the other of the split nations, or neither, be recognized, acting Foreign Minister Pheng Phongsavan professed amazement. "If they accept the laws of Laos, there will be no trouble," he declared, and added that, happily, the rival missions need not even see each other, since one could go "to Luangprabang and the other to Vientiane...
Nothing in recent memory has so shaken the 812,000-member National Education Association as the recent teachers' strike in New York City. The walkout was blunt warning of the new strength of N.E.A.'s rival, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. American Federation of Teachers, which today has 80,000 members and is growing fast in the big cities...