Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saudi Arabia's King Saud. But last week the Middle East seethed with rumors. Nasser's charge that Saud had plotted his assassination, had put the feudal Saudi regime in deep trouble. There were stories of executions, of arrests, of planned coups d'état by rival princes...
Johnson's unique ability to sense the paramount-or sometimes merely the hourly-issue, and then move fast to get control of it, has made him without rival the dominant figure of the Democratic 85th Congress. As such, his is the Face of Democratic performance, and he does indeed stand second in power only to the President...
...Oversight to protest that Mack was "being broken, crucified and . . . sent home in disgrace." But "more guilty," insisted Baker, were Florida's Democratic Senators George Smathers and Spessard Holland, together with Tennessee's Estes Kefauver. Their crime, to Baker's mind: pressuring the FCC for a rival Channel 10 applicant while the case was under consideration. Snapped Baker: "Holland, Smathers and Kefauver ought to resign, just as Commissioner Mack has, and for the same reason . . . Their halos have slipped...
...talent agency in the publicity-loving world of entertainment, and is one of the most potent forces in determining what the U.S. sees on TV and movie screens-the General Motors of the entertainment world. Last week the Justice Department was investigating M.C.A. and its smaller rival. William Morris, which together reportedly control 80% of U.S. TV talent. The question: Are they too powerful...
...woman soon enters a rival claim to the succession, and she advances her pretensions in a woman's devious way. She makes the old man promise that if she gives him a son, he will make that son his heir. Whereupon, since the old man has lost his sexual strength, she proceeds to seduce the young one. Suspecting nothing, the son connives so enthusiastically at his own disinheritance that he wins her heart as he gives her a child. The child is born and everybody is happy, but when the father disinherits the elder son in favor...