Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...steel mill. London has promised $20 million to improve the harbor. World Bank and U.N. missions have been in Singapore discussing ways to provide the $110 million outside help needed to complete Lee's $330 million, five-year plan to turn Singapore into an industrial outpost to rival Hong Kong. Labeling Communists "the ultimate enemy," Lee has shaken up trade union leadership, set up an arbitration court to cut down on strikes...
Raiding the Nursery. Looking to the future, Kansas and rival Big Eight schools are cranking up high-powered recruiting machines to capture prime high school prospects. "College football is 10% coaching and 90% recruiting, selling and advertising," admits Kansas' Mitchell. A Kansas boy himself, Mitchell concentrates on landing home-state players, is fast developing the fierce local pride necessary to support a winner. When Kansas only tied Oklahoma this season, 13-13, frustrated Jayhawk fans booed Mitchell -to his vast delight. Mitchell's ready explanation: "It's the first time Kansans have cared enough to gripe...
...Portland Oregonian, which is Newhouse-owned, has been struck by the American Newspaper Guild and printing-trades unions, along with the rival evening Oregon Journal, since Nov. 10, 1959. Both have lost heavily on circulation but are still appearing. Last week Donald R. Newhouse, 41, Samuel Newhouse's cousin and business manager of the morning Oregonian, was wounded in the thigh by an unidentified assailant who fired a shotgun through a basement window...
...found "the difference between the two candidates . . . narrow and the choice not easy." but concluded: "With Nixon and Lodge in charge of U.S. world policy we shall feel both safer and more hopeful." ¶ Another magazine for Nixon: Farm Journal; for Kennedy, Harper's. ¶The residents of rival Crackertown (pop. 463) and Yankeetown (pop. 700), Fla., two miles apart in northwest Florida's Levy County, whooped up their own straw vote for President. Although the combined voter registration is 97% Democratic, Crackertown (51% native-born Floridians) went 52 to 47 for Kennedy, while Yankeetown (80% transplanted) voted...
...gangs are formed, and what Freud called the "narcissism of small differences" begins to operate. "Turfs" or gang territories are established. "Points of honor" become the meaning in life. And so, into insults--the formal insult, say, of invading rival "turf"--is poured all the accumulated frustration endemic in our society. As Goodman puts it, "It is inevitable that there should be a public dream of universal disaster, with vast explosions, fires, and electric shocks...