Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Memorial Drive in Cambridge, Riverside prints all of Houghton's books as well as a large number of books coming from other editorial desks. Lower on Beacon Hill and closer to the center of Boston than Little Brown, Houghton-Mifflin exudes a more worldly atmosphere than its consciously dignified rival...
...have the look of a winner as Gobel traded arch repartee with a fluttery actress pretending to be his mother, endlessly rubbed noses with plump Singer Peggy King, and finally salvaged some shreds of comedy from an interview with Actor Fred MacMurray. Gobel this year may have a rival in CBS's Johnny Carson, another minor-keyed comic who can extract a remarkable amount of amusement from such items as his meeting last week with his three-girl fan club. Like Gobel, Carson has a cute girl singer, Jill Corey, and they spend too much time nuzzling each other...
Uncharted Seas. Confronting the jury, as the members wheeled about the galleries, was an array of the styles that have turned contemporary painting into a seething, uncharted sea of rival techniques, fads and dead-end experiments. They ranged from the surface violence of U.S. Painter Willem de Kooning's grotesque female portraits to the acrid brilliance of German painters like Fritz Winter, still haunted by Klee and Kandinsky. Paint surfaces varied all the way from Holland's Karel Appel, who trowels on paint like a pastry cook slathering on frosting, to the latest French vogue for tachism (staining...
...Rival Unions. Westinghouse has also been losing out on sales of heavy industrial equipment, occasionally failing to meet its delivery schedules. Its power-plant department, said a public-utility man, needs to revise its basic designs ("they lack venturesomeness...
Then there are labor troubles. In the first nine months of this year while industry as a whole enjoyed unusual labor peace, Westinghouse had 94 work stoppages costing 5,000,000 production man hours. Sometimes they were not Westinghouse's fault: Westinghouse was the battleground for two rival unions competing for its employees. But Westinghouse pulled some boners. Last August, on the eve of wage negotiations, Westinghouse got into a dispute over a time study at the huge East Pittsburgh plant and the men walked out. Twenty-eight other plants went out in sympathy but went back when...