Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...predicted: "He'll probably be the best swimmer in the world." That kind of praise was not given lightly; among Haines' stable of champions was Don Schollander, who won four gold medals at Tokyo in 1964. Mark, then 14, joined the club that year, and immediately became a formidable rival of Schollander, who was four years his senior. In 1966, showing early promise as a distance swimmer, Spitz came within .2 seconds of breaking the world record in the 1,500-yd. freestyle and qualified for the A.A.U. National Championships in Lincoln, Neb. Spitz remembers: "I had two days...
...pool. Says an older member of the U.S. women's team: "The least he could have done was put the make on somebody from a different event." A dental student who returns to Indiana in February, Mark has also cast an interested if clinical eye on his early rival for the swimming honors, Shane Gould. Says he, clucking, "She looks pretty good with her braces...
...walnut face held his. "I am the head of the Union Corse." The Union Corse! More deadly, and perhaps even older than the Unione Siciliano, the Mafia. Bond knew that it controlled most organized crime throughout metropolitan France and her colonies-protection rackets, smuggling, prostitution, and the suppression of rival gangs...
...field of drug control there is the Division of Narcotic Drugs, the U.N. Fund for the Secretariat of International Narcotics Control Board and the newly created U.N. Fund for Drug Abuse Control. Recently, another new group of agencies has been started to coordinate special areas among the rival bodies...
Patterson covered China in the 1930s. Last spring, from Hong Kong, he ostensibly entered the People's Republic and produced a five-part series that the paper front-paged. But did Patterson actually visit China this year? Paul Avery, a reporter at the rival Chronicle, heard a rumor to the contrary. He read the Patterson articles closely and concluded that they contained no details that had not been reported earlier by others. Checking with several sources, Avery could find no record of Patterson's entry into China. Word of Avery's digging got back to Examiner Editor...