Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turkey clamored for help in its feud with the Greeks over Cyprus. Iran called for U.S. missiles and more economic aid. Pakistan was particularly annoyed because the U.S. had just proposed $225 million aid to India, its neutralist neighbor and rival claimant of Kashmir. Iraq, the Baghdad Pact's one Arab member, demanded action on the Palestine question -"the core of instability and restlessness in the Middle East." All four, who have dubbed themselves the "area" members of the Baghdad Pact to distinguish themselves from "donors" (meaning Britain and the U.S.), wanted more military and economic...
...shock-haired Agriculture Minister Philip Gunawardena, 58. A shouting, sarong-clad union boss who learned his leftism in the U.S.-at the University of Wisconsin and in Manhattan's Union Square-Gunawardena built his power month after month. By tying up island transport in incessant union warfare against rival Marxists, Gunawardena drove Banda to nationalize all buses Jan. 1. Later in the month, after even rougher bullyboy tactics by Gunawardena's dockworkers immobilized 72 cargo-crammed freighters in the harbor, Banda nationalized the port of Colombo. Over the opposition of moderate members of Banda's coalition...
Director Clair. now 59, does not everywhere rise to his subject (taken from a novel by René Pallet), and at no point does he approach the artistic altitudes he reached in the '20s. But he works with a degree of taste that few moviemakers can rival, and perhaps as well as any humorist alive he achieves an exquisite thing: he laughs at life but not at people...
Last week the U.S. authorities reaped the consequences of their ineptness as 70,000 Naha citizens clacked briskly to the polls on wooden geta to choose a new mayor. Both candidates were anti-American, and the winner was chosen chiefly because he was more anti-American than his rival...
...dental societies and the courts, if necessary. His column, ballyhooed by General Features ("More reader interest than a) politics, b) baseball, c) Elvis Presley, d) canals, or e) Marilyn Monroe, COMBINED!"), is running in about 50 papers. Meanwhile, the Des Moines Register and Tribune Syndicate is starting a rival column written by a Cleveland dentist who is retired and thus need not heed the cries of his fellow dentists should he touch them on a sensitive nerve. Dentist Garvin himself is so flooded with would-be patients that he has to send them to other dentists. Declared an editorial...