Word: vies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This last vie has received the most public attention. And because the Administration has not chosen to deny the charge, we must assume that it is protesting...
After a short halftime, the Princeton club returned with some folksongs and three choruses from Offenbach's La Vie Parisienne. Except when their thin-voiced, quavery soloists spoiled things, the Tigers sang these raffish songs pretty well. But I suppose that music about well-pomaded young men-about-town was rather congenial to them...
...notably the Observer and the Sunday Times. And although it will keep the Journal's six-column makeup, the Observer's resemblance to its parent will end there. It will use pictures, which the Journal almost never does. Business news, says Journal Editor Vermont C. Royster, will vie for space with the full spectrum of world events: "This will be a paper aimed at the intelligent reader interested in what goes on around him." If a preliminary trial run in Washington, D.C. proves successful, the Observer is likely to branch out into the same multiple publication...
Foreign carmakers obviously do not relish the new U.S. competition-especially in Western Europe, where 109 automakers already vie for the business. France's Pierre Dreyfuss, president of state-owned Renault, pleaded with Detroit not to make a bug-sized car for Europe in direct competition with Renault, Volkswagen and Italy's gnatty Fiat. Henry Ford called Dreyfuss' plea "disgraceful," and is going ahead with plans for a Volkswagen-sized Ford, now dubbed the Cardinal...
Fidel Castro's offer to swap rebel prisoners for heavy-duty tractors has raised a strange debate, in which every speaker seems to vie for irrelevancy...