Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herbison, 81, were still making picture frames and statuettes for the tourists. From her apartment in "Jerusalem," one of the House of David's less than paradisaical buildings, Ada Jeffrey was minding the colony's dairy operation as she has done for 60 years. They do not expect to wait too long for the Millennium, when they will be among God's 144,000 elect, as King Ben had always promised...
...changes in cars will have to wait beyond model-year '67. In both styling and safety, next fall's new cars will not be all that different from the '66s, which have fallen short of last year's alltime high sales. The automakers do not expect to break that record until 1968 at the earliest...
These have caused their own problems: the PBH volunteers are constantly worried about both the people in the projects and the local politicians; the Ed School fears a possible flare-up in the old style and constantly attempts to avoid arousing political memories; and some observers expect conflict between Harvard doctors and the Cambridge-rooted doctors in the City hospital. It is possible, though hardly likely, that these tensions will doom the projects that created them. The conflicts seem to be tolerated. The Phillips Brooks House program in the Roosevelt Tower Housing project, for example, has received little but praise...
Obviously, a two-day conference in Washington could not manufacture instant panaceas, and the President was only being candid when he told the assembly: "Do not expect from me, or any man, a miracle. Do not expect us, even together, to right in one year or four all that took centuries to make wrong." Hubert Humphrey recounted the Negro's progress in recent years but also stressed the difficulties of living up to the conference's high-flown name: "To Fulfill These Rights." Said the Vice President: "This will be a hard, sometimes unglamorous, frequently frustrating responsibility...
...plane, inevitably a U.S.-built Boeing, into Shanghai every week. Probably beginning in September, Air France Flight 180 will leave Paris on Mondays at 11 a.m., stop in Athens, Cairo, Teheran, Karachi and Pnompenh, and wind up in Shanghai at 5:35 p.m. on Tuesday. Air France does not expect to make money on the service, but by extending its route miles it will strengthen its claim to the slogan, "The world's largest airline...