Word: anxious
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...Reds. West Germany last year did just over $1 billion worth of official business with Moscow and its satellites (including $422 million with the Soviet Union and $213 million with East Germany); no one can guess accurately how much more private trade went on. Though some German industrialists were anxious for the government to guarantee long-term credits, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard ruled out the idea as long as the Soviets block German reunification. Said Erhard: "Such credits would strengthen the Soviet position, so that its willingness to negotiate would be weakened...
Accompanied by a burly, beetle-browed "manager," the group has had little chance to fraternize with Americans. But as they push on toward Chicago, Laramie and points west, they can be sure to find friendly ears anxious to hear their taut, well-tempered sound...
Having delivered more than 200 P104 Starfighters to the Luftwaffe, Lockheed saw its program coming to an end in Germany, and was anxious to sell the Germans something else-its C-130 Hercules transport, one model of which the company had specially revamped to fit certain German requirements. All that Lockheed had to do was persuade Bonn to drop a planned Franco-German project to build the Transall turboprop transport. But the Germans could not drop Transall-for Transport Alliance-without affronting the French, who have already ordered 50 planes. Germany's renascent airframe industry, also, needs the work...
Nobel Plastic. Already associated with Montecatini in marketing pesticides in Italy and making plastics in The Netherlands, Shell is anxious to get in on the promising petrochemical industry in Italy. For one thing, Shell wants to make sure that all the Italian petrochemical business does not eventually go to E.N.I., the state oil and gas monopoly that the big oil companies heartily dislike. In Montecatini, Shell will also have a good Italian outlet for its own crude...
...Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-President, said yesterday that Harvard is anxious to provide living quarters for married students from foreign countries who particularly never get to Cambridge until a few weeks before classes start...