Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...surviving leaders, especially the powerful state chiefs, rallied to Indira-though hardly for the best of reasons. They prefer a relatively weak Prime Minister, who will let them run their own affairs with a minimum of direction from New Delhi, to someone like Indira's main rival, former Finance Minister Morarji Desai, 71, who undoubtedly would like to curb their independence. To give Desai less time to collect supporters, the party's parliamentary board moved the selection of Prime Minister forward by three weeks, to March 12. Indira was also helped by a feeling that the party should...
...factors making for the Congress Party's unpopularity are not new; they have simply grown worse and more wearisome with the passing of time. For one thing, the party's discipline dissolved; in most states, dissident members bolted and created rival parties that siphoned off millions of votes. For another, India's warring opposition parties finally began to join forces. They accounted for more than 50% of the ballots in three previous elections, but their votes had often been canceled out through disunity. This time they formed alliances to overwhelm the Congress Party, whose share...
Situated in the bowl of an extinct volcano, the Arab quarter of the British colony of Aden is known as the Crater. Last week the Crater erupted with belching smoke from terrorists' grenades and bullets. At least 16 people were killed and 46 injured in disorders provoked by rival nationalist organizations. British troops put down street demonstrations with truncheons and tear gas, while the rioters threw up rock barricades across the dingy alleys to hamper them. At stake was the issue of who should rule Aden's 250,000 people when the British make their scheduled departure some...
Only in the matter of color does the BBC lag behind the U.S. Colorcasting will begin on a small scale on one of the BBC channels this fall, but it will take another three years or so before British color programming will rival America's. Apart from that, the BBC, with its emphasis on performance rather than sales, can teach its old colonies a thing...
...lanky (6 ft. 3½ in., 167 Ibs.) Negro who wears sun glasses "for personality" and is so relaxed that he often catnaps for ten or 15 minutes before a race. Smith is called "Jet Gear" by rival sprinters-because of his huge stride (8 ft. 11 in.) and incredible acceleration. "Other sprinters reach their top speed at 75 yds, and then decelerate," says his coach, Lloyd ("Bud") Winter. "Tommie is still accelerating at the end of 100 or 220 yds. He can sustain a speed of 26 m.p.h...