Word: expect
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Their Senate future appears brightest. They do not expect to lose any seats, and may even pick up a couple. Their highest hopes are in South Dakota, where G.O.P. Incumbent Joseph Bottum is challenged by former Food-for-Peace Director George McGovern, and in Wisconsin, where aging Republican Alexander Wiley is up against retiring Governor Gaylord Nelson...
...concentrate on it. A Negro actor playing the part of a president of a major corporation would probably require "white face" to be realistic-a clearly ridiculous possibility. But many roles remain: doctors, detectives, soldiers, salesmen-all the postures and places in which a Negro might logically expect to find himself. "The actors are there, they're waiting, they could do it, but they never get a part," Davis says...
...long monorail to the fairgrounds will soon be paid for, and may be turned over to the city. As for the rest of the fair. private creditors have already recouped their original $4,500,000 investment, and since the fair still has another two months to run, its promoters expect to wind up comfortably in the black...
...sprouting all over Atlanta. In the past two years workmen put the finishing touches on such major new downtown structures as a 22-story, $12 million Atlanta Merchandise Mart, and a 31-story headquarters for the Bank of Georgia, loftiest skyscraper in the Southeast. This year city officials expect to issue around $120 million worth of new building permits. From 1950 to 1960 metropolitan Atlanta's population jumped 40% to 1,017,188 and is still growing at the rate of 30,000 a year. The gracious belle of the old South has become the nation's newest...
...Caribbean books. Author Sylvia Wynter, 34, was born in Cuba of Jamaican parents, educated in Jamaica, Britain and Spain, now lives with her husband, Novelist Jan (Black Midas) Carew, in British Guiana. Author Wynter complements the simple faith of her Jamaicans with their equally deep cynicism: they resignedly expect that everything−from religion to Marxist atheism−will let them down eventually...