Word: footholds
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Living on the roof of the world, in a craggy land where even the valleys are higher than most U.S. mountains, Tibetans have learned to be cautious and practical. They conserve their energy in the chilling blasts of winter, pace themselves carefully, try each foothold for safety before moving on to another. What cannot be avoided, they bear without complaint...
...biggest financial fights in the City's history. The victors: Britain's aggressive Tube Investments, Ltd., and Reynolds Metals, No. 2 U.S. aluminum company. Down with the British Aluminium management went Alcoa, No. 1 U.S. producer, which had hoped to get an important foothold in Europe's aluminum market by buying one-third interest in British Aluminium. Also among the casualties: the prestige of Britain's old-school-tie financial community...
...Better to Advance." Lying 250 miles east of the African mainland, larger than France and Belgium combined, Madagascar had a highly developed form of law and government before the Europeans ever got a foothold there. Its people are not African, being predominantly of Malayo-Polynesian stock. Nor are its plants and animal life. Madagascar is the home of the wide-eyed lemur, of some 800 known varieties of butterflies, nearly 300 kinds of birds, half of which are found nowhere else. It is also the home of the once proud Merina tribe, which conquered the island...
...Negro family in suburban Levittown was hounded by white neighbors (TIME, Oct. 7), Dilworth gave his full approval to Quaker groups who were helping the besieged family with food and moral support ("If we lost that one," says he, "we would never again be able to get another foothold there"). He also admits that "we're mighty anxious to get Negroes into the Main Line. We'd be happy to finance a house for somebody...
Internationally, he achieved what the Czars had long desired: a foothold for Russia?however uncertain it might be?in the Middle East. He proved the foothold's reality by a war scare that set the world's nerves on edge, creating it with one brash rocket-rattling threat against Turkey, then dispelling it with one cocktail-party crack as soon as his pro-Communists had consolidated their control of Syria. More than any other man, Nikita Khrushchev dominated 1957's news and left his mark?for good or evil?on history...