Word: lodgment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Baghdad is 600 miles from the Soviet city of Baku-about as far as Washington, D.C. is from Chicago. For centuries Russian imperialism groped without success for the power lodgment in the Middle East that the Soviet Union hopefully sees itself about to win. The Western powers had agreed to a summit meeting with Russia about the Middle East; and the radios of Cairo, Damascus and Baghdad all saluted this as a great Soviet breakthrough. "The Arabs are not Marxists," said Nikita Khrushchev last week. "But we hail them. National liberation is the first step...
...alarms were real: the West could indeed lose its oldest and most strategic lodgment point in the Arab Middle East, and defeat there would make precarious the fortunes of those Arab leaders in Iraq and Jordan who had identified themselves with the West. The question was not whether the survival of Lebanon is important; it is. The question was how best to save it from the double-headed threat of Nasserism and Communism, both working against the West, though not necessarily for common ends.* To force Lebanon into a choice of who is for Chamoun, v. who is for Nasser...
...deal gives Curtis a solid lodgment in the prospering field of shelter magazines. Catering to the middle-brow homebody and thriving on the postwar trend to do-it-yourself, American Home has picked up 800,000 new readers over the past ten years. The Meredith Publishing Co.'s Better Homes and Gardens has done even better, adding 1,200,000 readers in ten years to reach a circulation of 4,379,237. In advertising revenue Better Homes now ranks sixth among all national magazines, American Home a solid 16th...