Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That this drab and peripheral institute should come to rival the Louvre as a shrine of French Impressionism seems inconceivable. But five years ago, an octogenarian named Michel Monet, driving back from a visit to his wife's grave in Normandy, collided with a truck and died. He was the son and only offspring of Claude Monet. When Monet père died in 1926, Michel inherited his collection and kept most of it in his secluded country house at Sorel-Moussel in Normandy. Nobody saw it for 40 years. Paintings were stuffed under beds, piled higgledy-piggledy...
...book, Godfather Vito Corleone is shot down in the street by members of a rival Mafia family but survives, hovering near death. To guard against a feared second attack, his family stations private detectives and trusted caporegimes (lieutenants) throughout the hospital where he is recuperating. If anything, Colombo security within Roosevelt Hospital was even tighter, despite the presence of uniformed and plain-clothes New York City policemen...
...Further downgraded his major rival, former Secret Police Chief Mieczyslaw Moczar, 57, leader of the ultranationalist, anti-Semitic "Partisan" wing of the Polish Communist Party. Moczar, who lost his post as boss of the police and army, in the Central Committee's Secretariat, has been relegated to auditor of government spending, usually a stepping stone to political oblivion...
TIME'S survey also turned up a scattering of sour gripes. The Chicago Tribune shrugged off the Sun-Times disclosures as a "rehash" because some of its material had previously been published elsewhere. Boston's Herald Traveler ignored the revelations of the rival Globe. Detroit News Editor Martin Hayden, beaten by the Knight's competing Free Press, complained that the Pentagon study was "only offered to the so-called antiwar papers." And the Houston Post did not even mention the dis closures until Attorney General John Mitchell moved against the Times, four days after the story broke...
...working elsewhere in journalism. "Shnay" leaves with our gratitude for his contributions to TIME and with our best wishes for success in his new job. If we have special reason for believing that it will be a challenging one, it is partly because Harper's chief rival, the Atlantic, is edited by our good friend Robert Manning, also a former TIME senior editor...