Word: beachhead
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Until recently, Elliott's operations were confined almost exclusively to Britain. But Bagrit, an enthusiastic backer of British entry into the Common Market, is now turning his attention to Europe, secured a beachhead on the Continent last year by establishing Elliott-Automation Continental in Luxembourg. "The next few years," he says, "will see industrial competition between nations on a frightening scale...
...mouth towards laughter. And he is still, in his rhetoric, very much the precisionist and the academic. Nevertheless, he does seem in some indefinable way to have grown greatly in stature since last spring: standing flanked by the American and UN flags, he says he wants to be a beachhead of responsible opposition in this country. And he does seem very responsible: he stands tall and serious, and his quiet voice carries very well. "The moment for hope has not passed." Prolonged applause...
...Skouras was made chairman of the board (at the pruned salary of $50,000 a year); Zanuck and three Zanuck men were added to the eleven-man board. Then three Zanuck foes quit, giving him something close to rule by decree. "I'm just back from the production beachhead," Zanuck said expansively, "and I'm planning a complete streamlining." With that, he packed his bags for France, where he has been storming the Normandy beach for the past two years making The Longest Day-which has so far cost 20th Century-Fox a tidy $10 million...
...loyalist troops in Laos, and five-man teams of South Vietnamese paratroopers for behind-the-lines raids. One of the Army's toughest combat soldiers, Rosson, at 43, is also its youngest major general, a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Oregon, DSC from the Anzio beachhead, and a qualified paratrooper...
...prepared to wind up 44 years of naval service with a final piping over the side this week, Admiral Charles ("Cat") Brown, 62, retiring Commander in Chief of Allied Forces, Southern Europe, already had a new mission in view: establishing a European beachhead for St. Louis' jet-and missile-making McDonnell Aircraft Corp. Working out of Paris, the Navy's salty "Grey Eagle"* will peddle the successors to the fighter craft he began piloting back in 1924 as a roistering junior officer on the first U.S. aircraft carrier, the old Langley...