Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congo, combining territories now French, Belgian and Portuguese. After his election as one of Léopoldville's commune burgomasters in 1957, he had himself declared "Supreme Leader" by his followers, and began receiving homage seated on a leopard skin, symbol of tribal supreme power. Meanwhile, the rival Bangalas also began organizing, and the bush telegraph began to echo the nationalist sentiments of the recent All African Peoples Conference in Accra. To make matters worse, the demand for Congolese copper ore hit a slump, and jobless natives swarmed into the city to find work. Finally, one day last week...
...Admired Rival. Craft has become so familiar with Stravinsky's musical thinking (he meets with him twice a day) that he has conducted the first performances of works such as Agon and In Memoriam Dylan Thomas. Some day he hopes to write a comprehensive book about Stravinsky, "this incredibly fresh man." But, he adds, "It is not yet time; he is not finished...
...ball and himself this season in the National Basketball Association that his fellow pros already regard him with ungrudging admiration. "He has that ability to hang there in mid-air for a few seconds before making up his mind to shoot or pass," says St. Louis' Cliff Hagan. Rival coaches often pay Baylor the compliment of assigning him a taller man, try to block up the middle on his drives. Baylor has quickly adapted himself to the rough tactics of the pros. Says St. Louis Coach Ed Macauley: "When he's dribbling with his right hand, just watch...
However efficiently the Inquirer's head count has been brought down, rival newsmen wonder privately if the paper has not spent good money to get rid of good men. But the Inquirer professes pleasure with the results. The resignations, said Stewart Hooker, director of personnel and labor relations, "have made a staff reduction of about the size we told the guild initially we felt we should have...
...Modern Art. Among the many chairs, for example, in the Modern Museum's show, perhaps the handsomest was an Austrian rocker, designer anonymous, manufactured back in 1860. And yet that ancient rocker, tendriled like a vine from the wine-heavy hills around Vienna, had a brisk, bald-bottomed rival in Charles Eames's up-to-the-minute en try in molded Fiberglas and wire. An art nouveau desk (circa 1903) by Hector Guimard that looked as sinuous as weeds under water held its place against a rigorously rectilinear chair by Le Corbusier...