Word: rifted
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...come to seem stale, and the proof lies in the widespread acceptance of the far more informal Huntley-Brinkley format. But CBS's problems go even farther back. When Sig Mickelson joined CBS in 1949, he began trying to build his own news organization, and a Murrow-Mickelson rift developed that was never repaired. In 1958, Murrow's program, See It Now, was dropped; Murrow himself, far off form, took a year's leave in 1959; since returning last July, he has played only a minor role in CBS news coverage, left the network last month after...
...crisis, Wagner resolutely promised to answer De Sapio's challenge and to break openly with his old sponsor. After three days, though, Wagner was still hesitating-a maneuver in which he excels-and the best he had been able to manage was a limp "Yes, there is a rift." Adding to his troubles was Wagner's inability to decide on a man to fill Manhattan's borough presidency, automatically vacated when Hulan Jack was convicted and received a suspended sentence on charges of conflict of interest and conspiracy to obstruct justice. Still hesitating, Wagner postponed an election...
...Dark and Time of Hope are the second and third novels in Snow's panoramic cycle (eight volumes to date) of British life from World War I to the present. There are no "new men" in these two books, and none of those reflections on the rift between the "two cultures," scientific and humanist, that have recently catapulted Snow into the role of a space-age sage. But the hero and narrator is, as always, Lewis Eliot-a wily courtier of success, in law, college, and government administration, and a kind of modern Polonius...
...Nasser's claim to be leader of all the Arabs, has always rather fancied the title for himself. Often the royal brothers quarreled, and twice Feisal offered his resignation. Each time Saud wept, Feisal wept, and the 38 other royal brothers beat their breasts and declared that a rift might destroy the house of Saud. But last week, when Saud saw that his royal allowance under his brother's new budget was hardly any more generous than last year's, he had had enough. Secure in the knowledge that the tribal chiefs were behind him, the King...
...paper had been drafted, and it was unlikely that Liu had gone to Moscow except to sign it. Yet whatever the words that papered over the rift between Moscow and Peking, victory had palpably eluded Khrushchev. Mao Tse-tung, China's No. 1 Communist and the senior theorist of the Communist world, had stayed in Peking (where last week he issued the usual dutiful acknowledgment that the Soviet Union "heads the Socialist camp"). By his absence, Mao deprived Khrushchev of acquiescence at the one point where acquiescence counts decisively in the Communist faith-at the summit itself...