Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...majority, Juan Peron this veek won a second six-year term as Argentina's President. With 90% of the ballots counted, he had 4,000,000 votes; his nearest rival, Radical Ricardo Balbin, had 2,100,000 and six other candidates trailed ar back in the ruck...
Although Hollywood's top moviemakers are confident that they can hold TV at least to a draw without having to join their mushrooming rival, two more independent studios last week followed the lead of the profitable Hal Roach TV film operation (TIME, Oct. 29). Republic Pictures cleared its throat, announced that it had set aside $1,000,000 to enlarge its sound stage space for TV film production and to finance its first pictures for television (one character already on tap: Commando Cody, Sky Marshal of the Universe). Next day, Monogram Pictures fell in line, announced that...
...Greatest rival, and at the same time greatest friend of the Crimson yachtsmen, is Tech. As a friend, Tech provides them with all the boats and other facilities they use, free of charge. A Harvard sailor has only to check in his club membership card at the MIT pavilon, and the get his dinghy...
...only rational reason behind the Tech generosity seems to be one of building up intercollegiate racing. As Harvard's chief rival, it produces each year either the best or the second best team in the country. The excellent M.I.T. facilities help this along, but biggest asset is the great reserve of trained sailors. The Tech club can beast nearly a thousand members, though not many of these join in the racing activities. The majority content themselves with leisurly sails on the Charles; choosing their weather, and often on weekends, a girl for crew...
...London's critics refused to be pushed over. Wrote the Daily Express' John Barber: "My goodness ... I got a 42nd Street Madame Butterfly. I hoped for a new leading man to rival Ezio Pinza. I got Wilbur Evans. . . an old uncle with the fire gone out. . . Only a moderately enchanting evening. People will say I'm in love . . . with Oklahoma!" The Daily Mail's Cecil Wilson thought the plot moved too slowly. Said he: "It seemed to be more like South Soporific." Yet the critics, despite their reservations, were quick to admit that South Pacific seemed...