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...country's flag around Serrana. As it happens, he did so more or less as an afterthought. The Colombian ships could not find Quita Sueño, which apparently was under water at the time, and the seas were too rough for the voyagers to make a beachhead on Roncador...
Continental Air Service, a subsidiary to Continental Airlines in the States, has established a beachhead. Continental drops arms, ammunition, and rice and transports troops on contract to the CIA in Laos. It expects such business in Cambodia as well. Although it has only a few planes right now in Cambodia, its director says that they have their full stock in Laos to draw from, and that things will pick up once the aid request is passed...
Heady Days. Fifer is typical of the residue of tough-minded collegians left after a powerful but formless wave of students came rushing onto the scene in May to establish a beachhead in conventional politics. Summer started, school ended, and predictably most of the student volunteers have forsaken figurative for littoral beaches. But those who remain are hard at work registering voters, gathering petitions, computerizing, analyzing their mistakes in the spring primaries, interested in winning on the issues rather than losing with elan. Their principal goal in November is to elect a Congress that will end the Viet...
...movement can turn, without vengence but with steadfast enthusiasm, to creating an orthogonal university, it will have established a beachhead which will serve it well in changing the remaining institutions, including the government. Such orthogonal institutions will be outstanding, because the people who will work for these institutions include many or most of the best minds in this country. Consistently I found at M.I.T. that the radicals were "A" students, primarily in the natural sciences, not humanities. As in the past, today's leading professors are also the more socially concerned. In the older generation, they were Einstein, Morrison, Oppenheimer...
Organized crime secured its first firm beachhead in New Jersey during Prohibition days, when Abner ("Longie") Zwillman used the state as the base for 40% of the nation's bootlegging operations. Aside from Newark and Jersey City, much of the state retained a rural character until the opening of the George Washington Bridge in 1931. New Jersey suited the underworld's needs perfectly. The Hudson River separated its members from the tough law enforcement of New York racketbusters like Fiorello La Guardia, Thomas Dewey and, more recently, Frank Hogan. Neither police forces nor local government had caught...