Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Butler's rise has inevitably cast him. in the public eye, as a sort of rival to Eden. Actually, the two some time ago struck a private gentlemen's agreement on Eden's right to be the next Prime Minister. Then, like so many Chancellors before him-Disraeli, Gladstone, Pitt the Younger. Winston Churchill, to name a few-Rab Butler will get his turn to be Prime Minister. Some have lingering doubts about Butler as P.M.; some feel he lacks some final quality of imaginative decision...
...with all this spirit and opportunity to get together, the Bunnies remain a diverse group. Athletes, scholars, and premeds are all Leverett inhabitants. The Hutch is supposed to house a high enough percentage of club members to rival, if not overwhelm, Eliot. At the same time it allegedly contains the highest ratio of scholarship students...
Naturally the maids, and all the other University employees, would welcome some guarantee of "security." Whether the AFL can really give them this is certainly dubious. The decision between the rival unions, is, and should be the workers' alone. It should be made on the basis of real and relative benefits, not exaggerated claims...
Looking back on the field that trailed him to most of the finish lines at Are, Eriksen picked the young (16) French prodigy Francois Bonlieu (who finished second in the giant slalom) as his chief rival for the 1956 Olympics. But the 26-year-old Norwegian speedster expects to be schussing home a champion for years to come. "You never get old when you ski," says he. "Skiing is for me the extreme expression of joie de vivre...
...jungle fever, went without much notice. Critics said he had an adolescent, romantic attitude toward dueling. This much is true: on several occasions he did come close too shooting it out, the most famous time with the Marquis de Mores, an ambitious Frenchman who had built up a rival ranch in the Dakotas. A severe blizzard sent Roosevelt back East bankrupt, ending the feud...