Word: rivalling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...remarks were not particularly eloquent, and invoked no propagandistic emotions: they were in West Point English, basic, clear, specific. Khrushchev (who advised reporters to "bring your lunch") showed the bad habits of speaking to captive audiences. And in showing his underlying hostility to the U.N. as a rival world system, the Russian badly miscalculated. His audience, the new nations of Africa and Asia, is fiercely loyal to the U.N. With little room for positive proposals left to him after the President's speech, Khrushchev-"the head of the greatest colonial empire of the present...
Panicky Word. For most of last week, the three pretenders stayed close to home, surrounded by hedgerows of Congolese and U.N. troops. Each seemed to feel that venturing into the streets was inviting death or disaster. Because none of the rival heads of government would act, nothing got done. Congolese bureaucrats sat numbly at their desks shuffling papers and waiting for something to happen...
Friendly Advice. Convinced that Europe cannot be defended without the U.S., his fellow Common Marketeers are particularly appalled by De Gaulle's implied intention to set up Europe as a rival, instead of a partner, to the U.S. The British dislike his obvious determination to exclude Britain from his European confederation. More simply, many Europeans feel that De Gaulle's dreams of grandeur for France, or even for Europe as a whole, are a century out of date...
Conservative Reluctance. His closest rival is Alice Hall, 57, a retired schoolmarm from Georgia who speaks perfect Spanish with a corn-pone accent. She has been following the bull since the days of Cesar Giron and Litri, has a filing-case memory for every tauromachic fact invented by man or bull. Others in the bull-bum set are Virginia Smith, 28, who spent her Long Island childhood dreaming of castles in Spain, and knew, even before she saw her first bullfight, that she was going to be an aficionado. She has proved it by logging more corrida miles this year...
...Richard King, Assistant Director of Admissions and Scholarships, put it, "performance in school, on tests, in activities is directly related to the socio-economic status of the parents." The poor student is less likely to apply and often cannot compete well "on paper" with his better prepared and richer rival. Institutions such as Harvard and Yale have taken the lead to reverse this trend, but probably only a massive and costly publicity campaign could increase interest in such colleges among the lower income group...