Word: rival
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George Romney evidently thinks so. As the current front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, with only Richard Nixon a serious rival, he has embraced Javits with a degree of ardor that some party pros consider unwise so early in the game. For, though Romney and Javits may look to many Midwestern Republicans like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Romney is well aware that he enjoys nowhere near as progressive a reputation as Javits does in the populous East. "Romney's got to get that Eastern liberal-Establishment to win," one of his aides admits candidly. "Javits is the key to that...
...Pabst Brewing Co.'s 1958 acquisition of rival Blatz violated antitrust law even though the two firms accounted for only 4.49% of national beer sales. Never before has the Supreme Court construed a share of a U.S. market quite that small as infringing antitrust statutes, and Justice Hugo Black's opinion surprised and disturbed even some top Justice Department officials. Said one: "That's getting down pretty...
First indication was the abrupt disappearance of his name from the Chronicle masthead, where he has been listed as president and publisher since January. Though all the principals involved immediately issued a torrent of stony silence-neither the Chronicle nor even the rival Post covered the story-the facts behind Mecom's canceled purchase murkily began to emerge...
Bordinat also sees the '67s as "Italianesque." Maybe like Sophia? No, like Ferrari. Many of them will also look considerably like the Mustang-the one car of the 1960s that dared to be different and, as a result, helped Ford to close its sales gap with the rival Chevrolet Division to a 1.2% difference in market penetration...
...itinerary of scenic vistas and sight gags, with wayside dalliance supplied by the Italian manicurist and a blossomy German blonde, De Funès stays right behind him all the way in a green Jaguar, which is tailed, in turn, by a furtive Austin-Healey carrying members of a rival gang. Always mirthful if not memorable, and photographed in crisp showroom color, The Sucker is funniest on side excursions, particularly a sopping wet and agreeably ribald robbers-and-robbers chase among the stony nudes of the Tivoli fountains near Rome...