Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ghana's contempt for its bigger Johnny-come-lately rival, Nigeria, less than two months after winning its independence, is on its way to becoming one of the major forces in Africa. Nigeria's dynamic U.N. Ambassador Jaja Wachuku is chairman of Dag Hammarskjold's Congo Conciliation Commission. A number of African nations, notably those of the French Community, are beginning to sidle up to Nigeria in visible relief at the emergence of a counterweight to the firebrands of Ghana and Guinea. And Abubakar himself has begun the wheeling and dealing abroad expected of a sovereign nation...
...After a bitter parliamentary fight, the General Assembly voted 53-24 to seat President Joseph Kasavubu as the legal representative of the Congo, overriding the diehard minority of Afro-Asians who still support his bitter rival, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba...
...Monti, Rolando Panerai, Renato Capecchi; Virtuosi di Roma, conducted by Renato Fasano; Mercury, 2 LPs). "He has received the homage of his age and has assured to himself that of posterity." Thus Giovanni Paisiello (1740-1816) paid tribute to himself in a contemporary dictionary. Unfortunately for his prediction, a rival named Rossini later wrote his own Barber of Seville and drove the older work from the stage. In this recording, Paisiello's Barber emerges as a smaller-scaled work than Rossini's but with a gay, quicksilvery score, some limpidly graceful airs, and several scenes of truly inspired...
...party. "What you do," the heroine informs the hero thoughtfully, "you do well. But-not seriously." Morbleu! he wonders. What more does the girl want? "A baby." The hero pales at the thought of marriage and fatherhood. "Fill your needs elsewhere," he proclaims indignantly. She finds a rival (Jean-Louis Maury) and gets engaged-but the rival gets cold feet, and at the fade hero tenderly promises heroine that some day, surrounded by all the children her heart desires, she may even have a wedding...
...became his third wife, was close to perfection in both categories. During their courtship, when she heard that another actress had plans of her own for Gable, Carole Lombard stormed the set, told the director: "Get that whore out of this film or Gable goes.'' The rival vanished. Lombard gave her man a pure white Ford adorned with red valentines, learned to handle a shotgun so she could join him on his beloved hunting trips...