Word: expect
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Distances & Delights. Chief problem for Europeans is the language barrier. The Japanese don't expect to communicate in anything but English, but most Continentals can get along in at least one other language besides their own, and it comes as a shock to find the Americans so relentlessly monolingual. The cash value of tourism, though, is bound to engender more linguistic proficiency. In only a year's time, New York City's Newtom Commuting Corp., has built up a booming hired-car service around the idea of having polylingual chauffeurs, who pick up foreigners at the airport...
...good practices in traffic, on freeways and under bad conditions. When the program has been evaluated, Loft plans to invite all Indiana high school driving teachers to one-day seminars on the plan, so that they can initiate similar driving education for old people in their own communities. "I expect this idea to spread," he says...
...come to expect higher prices as the cost of better times. The remarkable thing about the current advance is that prices have so far stayed relatively level, and that inflation has remained a bogeyman instead of a jingling presence. Nonetheless, the nation's economists are increasingly concerned about the possibility of broad upward price movements. That concern has been reinforced lately by rumblings from steel executives about the need for price rises and by signs that the United Auto Workers are determined to win a substantial settlement from the profit-heavy auto companies...
...Fervor, the Religion." Barry was abloom in the South. Florida's Democratic candidate for Governor, Haydon Burns, said last week that he would not campaign for his party's national ticket, and added: "I expect the Republican candidate will have strong support in Florida." Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithan ad mits that he may well decide to back Barry. The recent Mississippi Democratic convention was filled with pro-Goldwater sentiment. Georgia's Democratic Senators Richard Russell and Herman Talmadge both predict privately that today Barry could carry their state. Pollster Sam Lubell discov ered last...
...Ranger VII gave a tremendous boost to the entire U.S. space program. Gigantic rockets are already being built for manned exploration of the moon, but before a man dares to blast off, astronomers must learn the nature of the l And their biggest telescopes cannot tell them whether to expect fluffy dust or jagged rocks, smooth plains or pockmarked lava. Hampered by the turbulence of the earth's atmosphere, they can see nothing that is smaller than one mile across. Ranger VII's cameras, during their last few moments before impact on the moon, did at least...