Word: footholds
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...slogan, but carelessly omits the fizz. Probably it never should have been put in the can. Disguised as a surf saga, the movie has one good surfing sequence and little else. Pamela Tiffin, James Darren, Tina Louise, Nancy Sinatra, Comedians Paul Lynde and Woody Woodbury struggle to get a foothold in the slippery story about a rich campus cutup and a poor coed. But the standout performer is a bearded beachnik called Kelp. He paints a small face on his chin, upside down. Then he covers himself with sand, leaving the bottom half of his face exposed, and spiels gags...
...Barry Goldwater instructed his aide on the scene, Steve Shadegg, to cut a few days out of his Oregon schedule and privately crossed the state off his list. Nelson Rockefeller was planning an all-out mail and telephone, radio and TV campaign in a desperate attempt to gain a foothold. Rocky's people bravely explained that the situation paralleled the primary campaign of 1948, when Harold Stassen seemed to have had the state all wrapped up only to lose a last-minute saturation campaign to Tom Dewey...
...billion. Though the market is still dominated by Sears, Montgomery Ward, Spiegel and Aldens, more and more companies are entering the field. Six months ago giant J. C. Penney (1,667 chain stores) began selling by catalogue. Last week another big company made a strong bid to win a foothold in the market: Western Auto Supply Co. (1963 sales: $326 million) mailed the first of 7,000,000 catalogues that will offer auto supplies, appliances and sporting goods through its 4,500 outlets...
...there have been few big industrial mergers, and Italian businessmen usually shun them because of the heavy tax involved. More than half of the 300 mergers and joint ventures carried out by Common Market companies have been with companies that are outside the market and anxious to gain a foothold within...
...option, Russia can veto the Anglo-American proposal, thereby inviting a Turkish invasion of the island as the only means of rescuing Turkish Cypriots, or it can agree to the establishment of the force if it includes Communist troops, thus moving toward the historic Russian ambition of gaining a foothold in the Mediterranean...