Word: rivale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mauritania elect one representative to the French National Assembly in Paris. Ten years ago Mauritania sent to Paris, on the Socialist ticket, an olive-skinned, white-haired Moslem politician named Horma Quid Babana. In last year's general election Quid Babana lost his seat to a hated rival, whose election he tried to invalidate. Failing to secure a patronage job as district tax collector in France, he became violently anti-French and joined the "Cairo" movement. Recently Ould Babana turned up posing as the Emir des Croyants (leader of the believers), with a Senegalese secretary called Prince Sese Zacharias...
...festivous best, Washington's party-giving Perle ("hostess with the mostes' ") Mesta took her place at the top of the reception line at the wingding opening of Philadelphia's brand-new $15 million Sheraton Hotel. Suddenly Perle froze, hand outstretched. Facing her: Perle's arch-rival in the hostessing game, elegantly gowned and bejeweled Gwen Cafritz. Perle wheeled, looked wildly around for an escape route just as an alert photographer recorded this historic moment of truth (see cut) for posterity. Gwen nervously shifted her white mink stole, swung her evening bag against an onlooker...
Last week, with 1956's figures all in, President Shanks announced that the Prudential had passed its biggest rival. Metropolitan Life, as the world's No. 1 seller of life insurance. In 1956 the Pru sold $8.2 billion worth of new insurance, now has a total of $58 billion worth of insurance in force. With assets of $13.3 billion, it ranks as the world's third largest company of any kind...
Make & Break. But the racketeering coalition failed to last. Elkins decided that he was being doublecrossed by the Teamsters and their friends. Elkins testified that he had been told that a rival gambler had paid Frank Brewster $10,000 and had been given a Teamsters' go-ahead. Elkins went to Frank Brewster's headquarters for an angry confrontation...
Space Navies. If one nation has established a manned, armed satellite as a pillbox revolving around the earth, rival nations will be forced to find means of destroying it. They may try manned vehicles that could maneuver handily like PT boats of space. These vehicles could harass enemy satellites, shooting them down with space torpedoes or filling their orbits with steel shot revolving in the opposite direction at 20,000 m.p.h. Next step might be space destroyers to deal with the space PT boats...