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...headquarters in the area, and Russia has no great need for a new base. For another, despite last week's visit to Malta by the Soviet Ambassador to Britain, Mikhail Smirnovsky, Mintoff insists that whatever trade concessions he may give the Soviets, they will never get a military toehold on Malta. "We will offer our services to the one who pays the most," he says, "except for three countries which we fear: Italy, the U.S. and Russia...
Last week Chrysler Corp. got a toehold by making a "general agreement" with Mitsubishi, Japan's second largest industrial corporation, to set up a joint company in which Chrysler would have a 35% share. The government in Tokyo will have to approve the deal, and is not likely to be quick about it. The two firms hope to collaborate on some research, then move on to marketing each other's cars in Japan and the U.S. Later, they might join in assembling Chrysler cars in Japan. Ford also started negotiating in earnest last week with Japan...
...They remove the climax vegetation--the tall aspen and spruce--and open up the land for other types of vegetation. Black bears fatten themselves for the winter on blueberries growing in old burns, and other animals also depend on the low shrubs and grasses that can only gain a toehold after a burn...
...Mediterranee, which already has 17,000 American members, the American Express tie-in has provided a computerized reservation system and a ready-made U.S. sales organization. Last month, establishing a more tangible toehold in the Americas, the club opened a 140-bed, $1,000,000 ski lodge in Bear Valley, high in California's Sierra Nevada. It also added a 250-bed, $4,000,000 hotel on France's Caribbean island of Guadeloupe...
...political assimilation of European immigrants in New Haven. Although Dahl was not primarily concerned with Negroes, Stokes associates the Negroes' evolution with that of other minority groups. "If the ethnic pulled himself up a bit with the help of the rope," wrote Dahl, "he could often gain a toehold in the system; the higher he climbed, the higher he could reach for another pull upward. He was not greatly interested in leveling the mountain itself...