Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This is a very true observation and international control is a very pretty hope. At present, though, it seems doubtful that the rival countries will agree to international supervision of their satellites any more than of their arms...
...ground and 100 miles ground to air (TIME, Dec. 10). Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker decorated the Redstone Arsenal's most famous missile scientist, ex-German Missileman Wernher von Braun, boosted the Army's claim that its 1,500-mile missile Jupiter is superior to the rival Air Force Thor and is in fact "the most advanced guided missile yet produced in the free world...
...great step in weaponry, the defensive missile system to stop the attacking missile. He plugged hard for an Army project called Nike Zeus-"which already partially exists in the form of research-and-development components"-as the basis for an anti-missile missile program, thus by inference downgrading the rival Air Force Wizard anti-missile project (as well as an Air Force Pentagon-corridor campaign to put the Army out of the defensive antiaircraft missile business altogether...
Another source of pressure was Vice President Richard Nixon, who figured that he had much to gain from a healthy, united Republican Party in his home state, even though Knowland's election as governor of California might build Knowland into Nixon's rival for the Republican presidential nomination. Working through intermediaries, Nixon sent word to Knight, his old political enemy, that Knight, if he withdrew, could have either 1) near-unanimous party backing for the Senate or 2) a fat Administration appointment...
...there a rival to be disposed of? Stalin would have had his secret police torture the offender, then put a bullet in his neck. Nikita Khrushchev, up against Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the second most powerful man in the U.S.S.R., brainwashed the stubborn soldier within a week, relegated him to obscurity with airy insouciance: "I saw Zhukov today. He is in good health. We have not yet decided on a new job for him, but he will get one for which he is experienced and qualified...