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Word: rival (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americas and 54th Street, the Ziegfeld Theater, which opened in 1927, last week also received its death warrant. It will be torn down to make way for a new 50-story structure, fifth new building to be built in three blocks along the avenue, making it a rival to Park Avenue for glossy new office buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Changing the Skyline | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

...craggy features of Presidents Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt blasted out of the face of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore are world renowned. Less known is a rival of brobdingnagian proportions looming into sight on Stone Mountain, a freak outcropping of granite that juts 700 feet above the plains of Georgia, 16 miles from Atlanta. Subject of the Stone Mountain Memorial: the heroes and leaders of the Confederacy-Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sculpture: The Great Stone Faces | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...Tammany has a West Campus as well as a rival East Campus, the latter occupied by the Nikolayans (Soviets), who are Founderless. Life on West Campus is regulated and dominated by a computer, WESCAC, which is challenged by its twin, EASCAC, the deity of East Campus. Campus life is affluent and almost totally permissive, but pocked by student riots (wars). Under the shadow of EAT-ray (nuclear destruction), the campus is haunted by death and doubt, trembles on the edge of a new revelation. Some students seek revelation through existentialism, sex or student-unionism (Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Black Bible | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Even the wives of pro-football fans had no trouble divining the reason behind last month's sudden merger of the rival National and American football leagues. In a word, money-the staggering bonuses (up to $600,000 last year) paid to college stars by the hotly competing pro leagues. It was bound to be merely a matter of time until veteran players (and their lawyers) decided to grab for a leaf of the lettuce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pro Football: In a Word, Money | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...union's analysis was not far wrong; the small gap between the rival positions is a reflection of how good the appraisal was. But the IAM's calculations left out one factor--federal intervention. As a result of the government's role, both parties have found their bargaining positions frozen: the union can't back down from its demands because of internal politics and external rivalries; management fears that a union victory, which could serve as a model for other labor disputes in the near future, will bring down the wrath...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Airline Strike | 7/15/1966 | See Source »

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