Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...next week within the powerful Liberal Democratic Party, whose president invariably becomes the next Premier, money had already begun to talk -and sometimes shriek. After Sato resigned with a farewell blast at the press-"I hate biased newspapers" -Japanese last week were counting not only the merits of the rival candidates but also the amounts of hard cash that they command...
...Nobel Prizewinner James Watson confessed to another questionable practice. Determined to unravel the complex structure of the DNA molecule before Caltech's famed chemist Linus Pauling got to it, Watson and one of his co-winners, Francis Crick, deliberately withheld information from Pauling that might have helped their rival in the race for the Nobel...
...goose-'em committee," the purpose of which was to "keep editors on their toes, to keep them mad and unsatisfied." That restless spirit has been typical of the Globe in recent years, and this week the paper got another prod toward self-improvement: the death of its traditional rival, the Herald Traveler...
...PLAYBOY FOR FATHER'S DAY, and at first glance it looked like another Bunnyland promotion. But the full-page New York Times ad was paid for by up-and-coming Penthouse, Playboy's rival, and it went on to counsel, "Your Dad grew up in the Playboy generation." Thus the old fellow simply cannot handle Penthouse. Claimed the ad: "More than 95% of Penthouse readers are under 35." Not quite. Actually the figure is 87%, but the survey did show that 95% of Penthouse's male readers are between 18 and 34. For Playboy, the equivalent figure...
From the beginning, the expedition was split into rival factions-led, respectively, by the British and the Austrians. According to Britisher Don Whillans, the Austrians "were afraid of us getting into the lead." Said German Climber Michel Anderl caustically: "The precious contribution of the British was to help consume 16 bottles of oxygen and eat enormous quantities of food." Supplies seemed to be a considerable problem. Native Sherpas staged one brief strike when the climbers reached 17,550 ft. and threatened another one unless their demands for more food and equipment were met. While Dr. Karl Herrligkoffer left the expedition...