Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this led to large-scale expulsions and resignations and in West Bengal, Orissa and Bihar ex-Congressmen formed parties which contested the official Congress in the elections. In other states, where no such extreme development took place, Congressmen often allied secretly with opposition candidates to defeat candidates belonging to rival factions of their own party...
...based on corporate partnerships that wed electronics and the printed word so as to participate in the U.S.'s education explosion. Since 1965, Raytheon has bought Boston's B.C. Heath, Xerox has assumed control of the Wesleyan University Press, and RCA, parent of CBS's great rival, NBC, has taken over Random House, is also diversifying in other ways (see following story). Time Inc. and General Electric have gone into a fifty-fifty partnership in a new firm called General Learning Corp. Beverly Hills-based Litton Industries plans to buy the American Book...
While CBS was moving from the ballpark to meet rival NBC at the bookshelf, NBC itself was getting more involved with sports. Last week NBC President Julian Goodman in Manhattan and Golfer Arnold Palmer in Miami (he was there for the $100,000 Doral Open) let it be known that the network would buy five of Arnie's eight companies, including the multifarious Arnold Palmer Enterprises, Inc., of which he now owns 60%. NBC will also sign on President Palmer himself as an NBC sportscaster...
...week felt a little like a Hertz executive who had been told that Avis had finally overtaken him. The mighty Met, long the second biggest U.S. company after A.T. & T. in terms of assets, and No. 1 in the insurance field for nearly half a century, lost honors to rival Prudential Insurance Co. of America. By the margin of $83,020,000, the Pru outdid its competitor, ended the year with assets of $23,594,698,000 v. $23,511,678,000 for the Met. Part of the gain was due to the fact that Prudential got a better return...
...other House finals were bloody affairs, both winning the approval of the large audience. Bob Raymond of Quincy scored with three solid right hooks to the jaw of Lowell's Tom Jones in the third round to knock out his rival, and cop the 165-lb. title...