Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Chrissie joined the weaker tour sponsored by the rival United States Lawn Tennis Association. Not surprisingly, in her first two months of playing for pay, she won 29 of 30 matches. "Being a pro," she said, flashing her most-likely-to-succeed smile, "is lots of fun." Still, she so dominated the U.S.L.T.A. competition that she soon began to worry that she might be losing her competitive edge. "I just want someone to start testing me," she said after a while, "someone to give me a real struggle...
Smith settled at XERF, just south of Ciudad Acuna, where he served as the businesslike station manager during the day and developed the Wolfman routine as the nighttime star. Control of the station was being contested by a rival faction, which at one point tried to take over by using hired gunmen. Wolfman says that he and his own pistoleros recaptured the station in a shootout that killed one of the bad guys. Later he ran a second station in Rosarito Beach, near Tijuana...
Sitting in the dugout last spring, Head Coach Don Blasingame could see why the rival batters were lambasting his fastballing pitcher. Blasingame asked for time out and told the pitcher to throw more change-up pitches. The catcher, mistaking the instruction as criticism of his pitch-calling abilities, lost his temper and got into a shouting match with the coach. Fortunately, neither man could understand what the other was saying, for Blasingame was ranting in English while the catcher was raving in Japanese. The first American ever to serve as the head coach of a professional Japanese baseball team...
...G.O.P. National Convention, Tuck wandered around creating havoc by spreading phony stories about rival candidates and setting one against another-a tactic not too far removed from some of Segretti's machinations. Once Barry Goldwater was nominated, he replaced Nixon as Tuck's chief victim. The prankster smuggled a comely girl onto the Goldwater train; every six hours until she was caught, she put out a newsletter ridiculing the campaign. Two years later, Tuck turned serious about politics-or so it seemed. He ran for the California state senate. He professed to be mortally afraid that Nixon would...
...Daytons are best known as patrons of the arts. Kenneth Dayton, 51, is deeply involved in fund raising for a new $18.5 million music-center complex, which he hopes will rival Washington's Kennedy Center in architecture and acoustics. Bruce B. Dayton, 55, is raising $26 million for the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, with a new wing designed by Yamasaki. The Guthrie Theater is primarily the contribution of John Cowles Jr., head of the Minneapolis Star & Tribune Co. But the list of big business contributors and fund raisers is much longer...