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...enduring dream of the Republican Party has been to secure a foothold in the states of the old Confederacy, from whose borders it was driven nearly a century ago by the collapse of the Republican Reconstruction governments. Today the dream has come true, but the trumpet call that is summoning Southerners to the G.O.P.'s standard is at best uncertain, uncomfortably mingling racism and progressivism. Republicans in other sections of the country have had to stop and ask themselves just what kind of a new party has grown up in Dixie...
Material Sharing. As the review board currently sees Britain's future defense posture, the 62,000-man Army of the Rhine must be maintained. Not only does it fill Britain's NATO ground commitment and give London a foothold in continental Europe, but also serves as a kind of strategic reserve which Britain uses to shuttle forces into African and Middle Eastern trouble, spots. The foreign exchange costs are high ($504 million a year), but the West Germans during the past year have come a long way toward offsetting those costs, and the British facilities in Germany would...
Barely Enough. To win a foothold in the $200 million market for cleanup equipment, scores of big and little firms are busy devising new kinds of filters, precipitators, sprayers and sensitive measuring apparatus. Last week in Corvallis, Ore., Governor Mark Hatfield dedicated a new office and research center for the five-year-old MicroFLOC Corp., whose high-rate water-filtration system is one of the world's most advanced, has been bought by 50 communities and industries. General Electric has developed a gas and vapor measurer and a condensation nuclei counter that counts dirt particles...
Tree Tenements. They were elegant and graceful in flight, slow and stupid-seeming on the ground, and fatally gregarious. When they settled in to feed or rest, they would funnel down, out of the sky, filling every branch and foothold, stacking up on one another's backs a dozen deep, splintering weak branches, toppling whole dead trees to the ground. They nested in only slightly less congestion, spreading out over scores of square miles, making every tree a kind of arboreal tenement...
...vast resources of the banks with which it is merging, and la Générale will strengthen its connection with one of the world's most promising industries. Besides, through Antwerp's Banque d'Anvers, the company establishes a firmer foothold in Belgium's fastest-growing industrial area...