Word: rivals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...republic, he spent one long evening with President Jacobo Arbenz and cabled Washington: "If he isn't a Communist, he'll do until a better one comes along." When the anti-Arbenz pressure exploded into revolution last year, Peurifoy, sport-shirted and packing a pistol, maneuvered the rival revolutionary chieftains into an agreement and averted a nasty civil war. As the U.S. saluted the ouster of Guatemala's Communists as a major victory, ambitious Jack Peurifoy was off to Bangkok to succeed "Wild Bill" Donovan as Ambassador to Thailand. There he made fast friends with Premier Phibun...
...week, when the National Assembly adjourned with him still in control, he could-and did -boast of a six-month record of achievements that few would have dared predict. For this he could in part thank the man who wasn't there-his old friend and now bitterest rival, ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France...
Decision on the Snake For seven years, private-and public-power advocates have been battling over rival plans to tame the Northwest's tortuous, turbulent Snake River, one of the last great U.S. valleys still unharnessed...
...Israel, politics, like the struggle for survival, can be bitter. Charges and countercharges by the 18 rival parties were almost as explosive as the bombs which blasted a candidate's home, a political rally and an election meeting. But Election Day last week was a ritual as solemn as any that democracy provides. People wore Sabbath clothes, and there was a Sabbath-like quiet in the air. Some 800,000 voters, half of whom cannot speak or write the language of the country with any fluency, entered the polling booth, carefully selected a slip bearing that...
...Consolidated Denison, south of Quirke Lake, which has a 6 square-mile claim, and indicated ore reserves comparable to those of Algom's Quirke Lake and Nordic Lake combined. Its contract with the government may well rival Algom...