Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keynote for his campaign for reelection. "It is essential to have a strong government which is firm but fair," he declared, picking up the theme of the Tories' 12,000-word manifesto "Firm Action for a Fair Britain." Across the square, Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, in a rival press conference, tartly retitled the Tory manifesto "Infirm and Unfair." Slimmer than during his two terms as Prime Minister and reflectively puffing on a pipe, Wilson lashed out 'against inflation: eggs up 99% since 1970, cheese 78%, chicken 69% and bread will rise to just half a penny less...
...couldn't tell you." Veteran reporters thought they already knew. Sally was persona non grata among Times staffers because of the allegedly inflated salary of $35,000 she was said to be getting. She would be a double risk if she becomes the wife of the rival Post's Executive Editor Ben Bradlee-another current story about Sally...
...enrolled students, most of whom had been attending classes in temporary quarters in downtownm Boston, the controversy is entirely academic. They are delighted with the well-equipped red brick buildings; the chemistry and biology labs rival those Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the fancy new sqush courts simply outclass their counterparts at Harvard. Futuristic steel and glass catwalks with spectacular views of Dorchester Bay colleges, a science center, library and administration building. Says Carlo Luigi Golin0,61, chancellor of the new Boston campus- and an Italian immigrant who got his own undergraduate education at New York's City College...
...loincloth and bandoleers. Boorman gets good work from his cast. Besides Connery, and a fine assortment of character actors, there are the excellent Charlotte Rampling as a sort of stern, fairy-princess scientist; and Sara Kestelman, of the Royal Shakespeare Company, making a welcome debut as a rival of Rampling...
...author's reckoning, highest above the salt would have to be Henri d'Orleans, Count of Paris, an amateur pilot and accomplished horseman, whose royal line remained unbroken for 1,200 years. Here, though, a slight problem arises, since the 65-year-old count has a formidable rival in the person of Louis Jerome Victor Emmanuel Leopold Marie, Prince Napoleon Bonaparte, 58, who re-established his clan's regal credentials as a doughty officer in the French Resistance during World...