Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, can you tell us anything about your plans for next week? A. With regard to the convention, I expect to go up later Thursday evening- I don't know what time...
...also include the extra conveniences of a special axle for fast highway travel, heavy duty springs and a 110-volt, engine-operated generator powerful enough to run a TV set. Units may be removed from the truck, though the more elaborate ones are permanent fixtures. Automakers expect to sell 75,000 trucks for this purpose in 1964, predict that there will be 500,000 on the road...
Comfort & Speed. All this activity -and a surge in orders for more conventional equipment - has transformed the nation's transit-car makers from a sick industry only five years ago into a healthy one today. The three major carbuilders this year expect to ship 700 cars v. an average of 425 cars per year since 1956. Last week the New York City Transit Authority tested twelve newly delivered stainless-steel subway cars made by Philadelphia's Budd Co., the first of 600 cars- at $114,700 each - that will be the largest subway order in history...
...building up their strength in the Kokkina area for what the U.N. feared might be a second strike against the small Turkish Cypriot redoubt, where refugees from other villages huddled in caves. Such a step would certainly provoke another wave of Turkish retaliation from the mainland; in fact, many expect the Turks to attack again. In Thimayya's opinion, Turkey may "bomb Cyprus to save its people from starvation and make Makarios lift the blockade." In the Turkish capital Premier Ismet Inönü was desperately trying to placate hotheads at home and come to agreement with Greece...
Help is on the way. The government is hurrying work on two new canals to bring in more than 1,350,000 tons of water a day from nearby rivers, expects the first to be finished next week. Meantime, Japanese Self-Defense Force planes carrying dry ice and water have pounced on every passing cloud, and on the shores of the Ogochi reservoir, a Shinto priest in the mask of a scarlet lion writhed through a ceremonial rain dance. Townsmen were warned not to expect miracles. "It will take two days for the message to get through to the dragon...