Word: footholds
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...breast the gale and was blown back. Without a word to anyone, Reis Leming, clad in a rubber "exposure suit," waded into the icy waters, pushing a rubber raft ahead of him. Often the water swirled above his head, but "I just hung on until I could get a foothold again," he said...
Three men-a Socialist, a Gaullist and a Popular Republican-had each been asked to form a government, and failed. Now Radical Socialist Mayer (see box), sought a foothold by praising the economic achievements of the late Pinay government. The Pinay majority cheered. Then he turned to the Gaullists. the other group he hoped to win over in order to win office. The treaties binding the six-nation European Defense Community have been duly signed by France, said Mayer, but before ratification, his government would require 1) negotiation of the Saar question, 2) modification of certain clauses in the treaties...
...found in Across the Space Frontier (Viking $3.95). Von Braun, who wrote one chapter, leads off with the statement: "Within the next 10 or 15 years, the earth can have a new companion in the skies, a man-made satellite which will be man's first foothold in space...
Onetime Reichsbank President Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's wily old financial wizard, got a foothold in Germany again. Turned down by the Hamburg Senate when he applied for permission to found a banking firm there (TIME, Aug. 4). Schacht managed to get a license to operate in the province of Schleswig-Holstein, appeared confident that sooner or later he would win his Hamburg permit...
...Boston Symphony and the Philadelphia Orchestra have women harpists. (Philadelphia also has a woman second cellist.) Further west women have gained a bit more foothold. e.g., Indianapolis and Houston have women first flutists, St. Louis has a woman first trombonist...