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...from spending any money on the laboratory until it could acquire title the entire 29-acre plot in Kendall square. The plot has already been eligible for an urban renewal , and Cambridge Mayor Edward Crane '35 has estimated that it will about eight months for the City transfer a "beachhead" to NASA...
...Lefka, which is also Turkish-controlled. Any attempt to improve road communications or to move villagers to larger Turkish towns is met with force. The Makarios government argues that a concentration of the island's minority would play into Turkey's hands by giving Ankara a beachhead for invasion. The Turks protest that the Greeks want to keep Turkish Cypriots well scattered so they can be used as hostages in case of invasion...
...properties, held through an intricate maze of subsidiaries, span from the world's largest Scotch distillery, at Invergordon, to major holdings in downtown Toronto. Rayne, who has every intention of expanding his U.S. beachhead, figures that the planned G.M. building may well cost about as much as Manhattan's Pan Am building. That structure, which was 45% financed by a consortium of other British real estate men, ran to $100 million...
Cyprus remains a powder keg surrounded by careless smokers. Chief among them is bearded, baffling Archbishop Makarios, President of Cyprus, whose attempt to overrun the Turkish Cypriot beachhead at Kokkina brought swift retaliation from Turkey in the form of jet fighters. What Makarios could not win by force, he now tried to gain by blockade. Bowing to the ceasefire order of the U.N. Security Council, Makarios fixed a grip of iron around the 80 villages and the fortified quarters of the cities that house the 100,000 people of the Turkish Cypriot minority...
...platoons across the 50-mile Mediterranean stretch; they are regularly watched by a Swedish U.N. infantry company that has its headquarters in full view of the shore. In all, some 500 Turkish soldiers have landed there, helping to secure a solidly held 30-sq.-mi. area-an ideal beachhead in case a major Turkish troop intervention should be decreed by Ankara...