Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moving fast to consolidate the power he won after a six-week seesaw battle with Mohammed Naguib, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser turned last week to the problem of a faithless friend. During the years he risked his neck plotting the overthrow of King Farouk, Nasser handpicked every one of the 14 original members of the Revolutionary Command Council, including Major Khaled Mohed-dine. Nasser knew that husky, young (33) Moheddine had been a Communist, but he accepted his oath of loyalty and his pledge to quit the Communist Party...
...week the seesaw teetered crazily. It began with Naguib on top. Bounding happily out of a meeting of the R.C.C., he told the waiting mob: "There is good news for you." Grimly, R.C.C. Secretary Major Kamal Hussein announced the details: on July 24 the two-year-old revolution would end. A parliament elected by the old parties would take over...
...television shows, only 7 Love Lucy can challenge Dragnet's popularity. Last week, as they have for months, the two programs were in a seesaw battle in which first one, then the other, was temporarily ahead. Old Dragnet shows, which are rerun as Badge 714 on 126 television stations, pull more viewers (their ARE ratings run from a low of 8 in San Diego to a high of 54.6 in Norfolk, Va.) than many a first-run show, and Dragnet is still a radio attraction on Tuesday night...
...engines, the U.S. and Britain are running a seesaw race for the title of the "most powerful" (see chart). Last week it looked as if Britain's De Havilland Engine Co., Ltd. had jumped out ahead; it announced a new engine, the Gyron, with a thrust "greater than that of any other known jet engine." Although performance figures were kept secret, airmen guessed that the Gyron is in the 15,000-Ib.-thrust class, compared to 10,000 to 12,000 Ibs. for the current model of Pratt & Whitney's J-57, which had been rated the world...
...Kansas City, Mo., the Indiana University basketball team took a seesaw thriller from the University of Kansas 69-68, to win the N.C.A.A. title...