Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington newsmen were astounded. No U.S. official had ever before made such a bare-faced endorsement of a political faction in the elections of a friendly country, especially where both the leading rival parties were non-Communist and professed friendship...
...such clients as Shell Oil Co. and Timken Roller Bearings, TV commercials and such specialized jobs as the supplying of cartoon "bridges" for the film The Four-Poster, starring Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer. He is eager to move on to full-length animated pictures, and hopes to rival Disney's Cinderella and Peter Pan with adult treatments of classic stories, such as Volpone and Helen of Troy, as well as Gilbert & Sullivan operettas...
...loyal deputy. But Eden is reported not to look with favor on this plan: he does not like doing only routine jobs; as an old officeholder, he dislikes a title without a department to go with it. Furthermore, he fears that the foreign secretaryship might go to his chief rival in foreign affairs in the party: Harold Macmillan, 59, of the book-publishing Macmillans, and personal friend of Churchill and Eisenhower. Another possibility for Foreign Secretary: Sir Walter Monckton, 62, the sturdy former Solicitor-General who has done an outstanding job as Minister of Labor. The difficulty is that...
Dressed casually in slacks and tan printed sport shirt, Huk-fighting Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, Aug. 24) called last week on Rival Presidential Candidate Carlos P. Romulo, in Romulo's palatial home outside Manila. For half an hour they talked in a study jammed with autographed photographs, medals and other mementos of Romulo's career among the celebrities of the world, as brigadier general, ambassador and U.N. Assembly president. Then they came out smiling, to announce Romulo's withdrawal from the race and the throwing of his support to Magsaysay in the November elections. Now there will...
...nerves develops, Charles is revealed as a crypto-Communist and Eva as a Soviet spy. Edna finds that she still loves Charles too much to give his scheme away. But matters are not really in her hands, for in the background lurk two rival espionage teams, led by a vulpine Commie and a cagey British agent. Between them, they pull the plot strings of Ambush into a tight, ironic noose...