Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tear of the past few days pointed up a paradox of his situation: his responsibilities as Attorney General cut deeply into the time and energy he can devote to his campaign, while the experience and prestige his office grant help set him off from Edward (Ted) Kennedy, his rival for the Democratic nomination...
...school board post. To get revenge, Estes set up a rival paper. Upshot: the Independent investigated and printed the first exposure of Billie Sol's tank-mortgage fraud. The alarmed finance companies sent in swarms of investigators, and Billie Sol's empire came crashing down with a thud that reverberated all the way to Washington. On March 29, the FBI arrested Estes on charges of transporting the bogus mortgages across state lines. Estes is now out on bail, but is under both a federal indictment for fraud and a state indictment for theft...
...Corvair was built at all was due to the initiative of then Chevrolet Division Chief Edward Cole (TIME cover, Oct. 5, 1959), who on his own time put together plans for the car long before he had any authorization at all. "Let's face it," sighs a rival automaker. "That big G.M. animal has a fantastic response mechanism...
...division in the late 1950s. Sales plummeted, and Buick's dip was not corrected until the System rushed in to provide Buick with new management and new engineers. But the System's response, if belated, was highly successful. Last year's Buicks were conceded even by rival automakers to be the best-engineered cars out of Detroit...
...several years past, there have been persistent rumors that the Justice Department would like to go even further and cut G.M. down to size by breaking off Chevrolet as an independent corporation. (Rival Automaker George Romney has long urged that G.M. be split up.) Now that G.M. dominates more than half the auto industry, the rumors come in louder and stronger. "Dominate," observes Donner dryly, "is a word like discriminate. It was a perfectly nice word until a few years...