Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quietly impressive ceremony last week, Julius Adams Stratton, 58, was formally installed as eleventh president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The meaning of the event was hinted at by one of the several important inaugural guests, President Lee A. DuBridge of California Institute of Technology, who warmly called rival M.I.T. "the leading college of science and engineering in the world...
Attempting to settle one of the Pentagon's bitterest interservice quarrels, Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy last week outlined a "master plan" for U.S. continental air defense. What it amounted to was a shaky compromise between rival antiaircraft missiles, the Army's Nike-Hercules and the Air Force Bomarc. The solution satisfied hardly anyone, and the grumbles both from Capitol Hill and the Pentagon reflected an increasingly apparent fact: for Neil Hosler McElroy, sometime president of Procter & Gamble, one of the longest of all Washington honeymoons is ending...
...force of Rockefeller's ergful personality, such the warmth of his smile and the enthusiasm of his full-Nelson handshake that the Capitol Hill Club Republicans were entranced. At evening's end there was no question whatever in their minds about his being a formidable presidential rival to Club Member Richard Nixon (by then in California on a long-scheduled visit). Said Indiana's conservative Senator Homer Capehart of Rockefeller: "A fine personality - a compelling personality." Glowed New Jersey's James Auchincloss: "I don't think he can make himself any more popular...
...months, two rival rebel bands have set their sights on the brothers who run Nicaragua. President Luis and General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza. One band was infiltrated by Communists, dominated by Fidel Castro and trained in Cuban meadows. The other, anti-Communist and wary of the Cuban group, made ready on secret training grounds in Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Last week the anti-Communists struck first with an air invasion of Nicaragua...
...Europe lies somewhere beyond Coney Island. But the boy's world is the three-or-four-street patch of roach-rich jungle ruled by his gang-the Royal Crocadiles, of whom Lu Ann is a one-girl ladies' auxiliary. The few streets beyond are prowled by a rival pack known as the Wolves; the rest of the planet is terra incognita. Duke is a big man in his neighborhood, where people are divided into two classes-the coolies, who are pushed around, and the cool, who do the pushing...