Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Might & Rights. But those who have played chess with him know that Abdullah, who plays well, likes swift moves, gets bored if the game lasts too long. What moves, wondered rival Arab leaders, was the wily brain planning to make in neighboring Palestine? Traditionally the bad boy of Arab politicians, Abdullah has never made any secret of his ambition to expand his holdings, at the expense of Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, or of all four of those states...
...crux of the plot appears soon after. Parks is grabbed as a hostage, is recovered by his own clan who are then ambushed after they have just thrown a shake-and-be-friends banquet for the rival clan (following all this?) Parks has just time enough to grab his sword and change in his photogeuie, canary-yellow fencing jacket before he sets matters right. Tempers have quieted down in the end, but the colors are still blazing...
Street Fight. Last week, in a bitter circulation war, France Dimanche was within 100,000 subscribers of its rival Samedi Soir, biggest (650,000 a week) paper in France. Max Corre had helped found Samedi Soir and thought he had enough tricks to lick his old paper at his own game. In weeks of racing to get on the streets a day ahead of the other, their press deadlines had been juggled three times. Now, under a truce, they will come out the same day-Wednesday...
Everyone who had a badge, a temper and a yen for authority took part. The U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Ice Hockey Federation are supposed to pick the U.S. team jointly, but since they were backing rival teams, two teams were sent to Switzerland, neither properly accredited. At the peak of the bickering, stuff-shirted Avery Brundage, the U.S. Olympic chairman, issued a pompous communique announcing that "a great victory has been achieved . . ." but he proved to be the only one who thought so. The International Olympic Committee sided with Brundage. But the Swiss, who as hosts were...
...fast break and a decided height advantage, the yearling basketball team had little trouble in turning back Penn Charter, 49 to 30, at the Indoor Athletic Building. Earlier, the '51 wrestlers had beaten Exeter, 18 to 11, as all but one Yardling either defeated or drew his rival...