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...sole unfairness of the present system lies in the assumption of many forced commuters that once they get a foothold in the College they will be able to obtain rooms in the Houses. The form letter sent to forced commuters reads: "Acceptance of admission with the above proviso does not mean permanent exclusion from dormitory living." Although the Admissions Committee offers "no guarantee," it should not offer a hope which figures belie...
...edge of the Iron Curtain, Europe's biggest press potentate last week occupied a strategic new foothold. Only nine years after buying his first newspaper, Hamburg-based Publisher Axel C. (for Caesar) Springer prepared to intensify his assault on the Berlin market by moving high-speed presses and an expanded staff into new quarters in the city's bustling Ullstein newspaper plant, home of prewar Germany's largest press empire. Newcomer Springer, who has already swallowed up almost half of the Ullstein papers, was also preparing for the hoped-for day when free newspapers will surge eastward...
...Austin, Texas speech: "The Roman Empire controlled the world because it could build roads. Later−when men moved to the sea−the British Empire was dominant because it had ships. In the air age, we were powerful because we had airplanes. Now the Communists have established a foothold in outer space. It is not very reassuring to be told that next year we will put a 'better' satellite into the air. Perhaps it will even have chrome trim and automatic windshield wipers...
While the U.S. was enjoying its peaceful, prosperous summer, two facts came clear about Communist diplomacy 1957. These were that 1) the Russians, pouring arms into Syria and ships into the Mediterranean, were back at their old oft-frustrated game of trying to get a foothold in the Middle East; and 2) they wanted no part of effective disarmament, a point proved when they turned down the West's latest and most moderate disarmament proposals-and instead brandished their first test-model intercontinental ballistic missile...
Jews on Madagascar. The British too began their period of desperate farce. Survivors of an early Commando raid on the French coast on June 25 could not regain foothold on British soil for some hours because the heroes could not establish their identity with the authorities at Folkestone harbor...