Word: footholds
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...General Motors in the U.S. but also to match their overseas holdings. Chrysler has 16 plants overseas, and earlier this year acquired control of Simca, France's fourth largest automaker. Last week Townsend outmaneuvered both Ford and General Motors to become the first U.S. automaker to win a foothold in Spain...
...blown away their tents and spare oxygen bottles, knocked two members of their support party 100 ft. down Everest's flank. Hornbein and Unsoeld were dangerously low on supplies. The climbers had to pick their way around huge outcroppings of rock. Now and then, searching for a foothold, they disregarded passport restrictions and stepped across the Nepalese border into Communist Tibet. No one expected them to go all the way-just to climb as far as they could...
...subversives, Minister of Rural Development Razak (in the post he will retain in Malaysia's new government) started a program of new roads, schools and clinics to boost the standard of living in the primitive kampongs (villages) of the interior, where the Communists were trying to gain a foothold. In the air-conditioned "operations room" of his ministry, gadget-loving Razak carefully watched the progress of his bulldozers on dozens of charts, movie screens and map displays, kept his program constantly ahead of schedule with his cold insistence on re sults-or else...
...that the New Frontier has launched the 50-mile-hike fad, how about Mr. Kennedy's going one step farther and starting a 90-mile-cruise fad-to Cuba, to see exactly how Communism and its weapons have gained a foothold under our very nose...
...will the Conservatives, the Liberals will concentrate mainly on retaining the seats they held in the last Parliament; however, they hope to make gains in British Columbia and in the Maritime Provinces. Liberal forces appear to have retained their solid foothold in the largest Canadian province, Ontario, where the large industrial areas are strongly anti-Diefen-baker. In the election of last June, the Liberals displayed strength by taking 11 of 17 seats in traditionally conservative Toronto. The Liberals, who had 100 seats in the last Parliament, should gain enough new members to give them a majority in the twenty...