Word: rivalled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to testimony at the trial, Provenzano in 1961 tapped Konigsberg, Salvatore ("Sally Bugs") Briguglio and Salvatore ("Big Sal") Sinno to kill a union rival, Anthony Castellito. They lured the victim to his own summer home in the Catskills, knocked him out with a lead-filled hose and strangled him with a rope. His body has never been found...
...match the surroundings, Producer Donn Arden has outfitted the world's largest stage with a two-hour floor show to rival the biggest movies in MGM history. He has created similar shows on four continents during his 30-year career as king of showgirl spectaculars. Says Arden: "I find the prettiest girls, put them in the finest feathers and then sink them on the Titanic or burn them up in the Hindenburg. Nobody can do girls and gimmicks like me." The Reno production, his most lavish ever, cost $5 million, but the result is a show that would have...
...most thrilling races in the history of the sport. They measured up to the demanding 1½-mile Belmont Stakes-"test of the champions" -and moved into the most select circle of racing royalty. Affirmed's honor was made grander still by the rousing challenge of his gallant rival, Alydar, who shadowed Harbor View Farm's chestnut in lockstep around the graceful, sweeping turns and down the long, open straightaways of New York's Belmont Park. At the wire, Affirmed won this race of matchless drama by a head...
...fight against the black Angolan liberation groups. After one of the guerrilla groups, Agostinho Neto's Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, came to power in Luanda, the Katangese switched their allegiance to it. Although the Katangese have helped Neto's government in its continuing struggle with rival liberation groups (see following story), relations between Luanda and the Shaba rebels remain somewhat uneasy. After last year's invasion, the rebels?who call themselves the Congolese National Liberation Front (F.N.L.C.)?began to recruit new members in refugee camps of Zaïrian-born Lunda tribesmen inside Angola, much to Luanda...
Volvo chief sought a merger with his smaller but more profitable Swedish rival, Saab-Scania. The engagement was announced, but Saab-Scania became worried about Volvo's decline and broke it off. After Falldin's government refused to help, Gyllenhammar secretly turned to Norwegian Premier Odvar Nordli...