Word: footholds
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...movement gained its first Latin American foothold in Argentina during World War I, spread to neighboring Uruguay and Chile in the late 1920s. But only in recent years, as the possibilities of progress and the perils of Communism have become increasingly clear to many Latin Americans, has Christian Democracy begun to show vitality. Chile, where the party has been operating for 25 uninterrupted years, is still its strongest bastion. Led by dynamic Senator Eduardo Frei, 50, the Christian Democrats won 20% of the vote in the 1958 presidential elections, believe that "within a few years" they will be the strongest...
...Socony's new Mobil Chemical Co. Last week, to get into the booming British petrochemical market, Mobil Chemical offered to buy O. & M. Kleemann Ltd., a British plastics manufacturer, for about $20 million. Also in the works: a $20 million petrochemical plant in Italy, to give Socony a foothold in the Common Market...
That Eastern Look. Back home, Toure's indiscriminate quest for funds to shore up his floundering country has already turned Guinea into the chief Communist foothold in West Africa. It is the price Toure has had to pay for some $110 million in Communist credits for development and construction. With the bankroll have come close to 1,000 Iron Curtain technicians and advisers, including 500 Russians, 125 Red Chinese. Sweltering little Conakry, the capital, has taken on an East European look. The black traffic cops wear little flat-topped caps resembling those of the hated A.V.H. police in Hungary...
Once he has a foothold in a business firm, the born S-Man learns to organize. This will enable him "to blame others for his own mistakes." The S-Man always has inside stories. He always knows "who is sleeping with whom. Inside every large onion, innumerable smaller and inner onions are waiting to be revealed. You are the prophet of the inner onion." The best road to the top "is often a zigzag-from one competitor to another and back again. Never be ashamed of rejoining your old firm if the salary is right: what a pleasure...
Headquarters of Lumumba's shadow government is Stanleyville, the slick little river capital of Eastern province. There Lumumba's Prague-trained Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga holds firm control of the local Congolese army and police force in defiance of frustrated "Boss" Mobutu inLéopoldville. With this foothold, Gizenga & Co. were pressuring Equator province, reaching into Kivu, and looking greedily at northern Katanga as well...