Word: expect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outlook: Believes the Kremlin represents the most ruthless dictatorship in modern times, but that it may change or collapse under internal pressures, possibly at Stalin's death. In general, approves Dean Acheson's foreign-policy course, both in Europe and Asia. Thinks the West should never expect the U.S.S.R. to be a capitalist democracy like the U.S., but that the West could live in peace with a Russia which would: 1) lift the Iron Curtain, 2) give up "the ancient game of imperialist expansion and oppression." Kennan suffers from no illusion that he can perform any solo miracles...
...soon as the government figured out its budget on the new exchange rate, it announced a deficit of $189 million. Economic Czar Boris Kidric thereupon cheekily told Parliament that "we have a moral right" to expect the West (i.e., the U.S.) to make it up, "because we are exposed to more difficulties than any other country in Europe today...
...state churches expect no stampede to their ranks. "It will be a trickle, not a landslide," said Methodist Bishop Theodor Arvidson...
...makers of microwave equipment, e.g., R.C.A., I.T. & T., Philco, Motorola, General Electric, Western Electric, did an estimated $150 million of industrial and military business last year and expect to do even better in 1952. But they think that they have barely scratched the surface. R.C.A. alone has orders for microwave systems from the Arkansas Fish & Game Commission (to catch poachers fast), the Atomic Energy Commission (for remote-control experiments) and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (for quick reporting of accidents, traffic jams and other road conditions...
...shortly after his wife became a Catholic, Goethe entered the church himself. His bishop, the Rt. Rev. Albert Stohr of Mainz, asked special permission from the Pope for Goethe to become a priest while continuing to live with Frau Goethe, "as brother & sister." The Goethes, who are childless, expect to live in Mainz, where Goethe will do organizational work with groups of converts...