Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...agency driving to build this unheralded rival to Western Europe's powerful six-nation Common Market is the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, or COMECON. Founded eleven years ago in Moscow as a crude Stalinist device for milking the satellites for Soviet benefit, COMECON was transformed into some thing more palatable after the 1956 Polish and Hungarian risings had compelled the Russians to pour $1.5 billion in emergency aid into the satellite lands. Communist rulers of the seven satellite nations pledged their peoples' labors to help Nikita Khrushchev overtake and "bury" the capitalist West through a planned...
...least six other Liberal Democratic politicians were also bidding for the job, and one hungry candidate reportedly had offered to give all Cabinet seats save one to rival factions in return for their support. Said one Tokyo observer sadly: "With the Liberal Democrats, policy does not come first but last-only after the sordid scramble for Cabinet posts...
...boats that were flatteringly close copies of Finisterre's hippy lines. Finisterre's greatest asset cannot be duplicated for there is only one Carleton Mitchell, and he has gathered and trained an assortment of veteran yachtsmen into an expert crew that is the envy and despair of rival skippers...
...right shoulder is weak, he has had innumerable pulled, torn and twisted muscles. The knee bothers him most; before every game, he binds his right leg from ankle to thigh. "The knee will never be right again," says Mantle. "It always feels like it will go out." Says a rival American League manager: "When he swings, it looks like someone is sticking needles into that...
...transaction caught the Post itself by surprise: it was scooped on the story by the rival Rocky Mountain News. Other Post stockholders leagued to announce that Newhouse's 15% invasion was as far as he would be allowed to go. "No further sales are contemplated," said Helen Bonfils Davis firmly. "Not under any circumstances." But Newhouse had no ear for such talk. He had every reason to think that before long he would own a majority interest in the Post...