Word: expectability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foreseeable Arab attitude, plus the fact that the U.S. has only one vote out of 81, it was predictable that the General Assembly would not, at the current emergency session at least, adopt any detailed program for carrying out the U.S.'s six points. All the U.S. could expect-and all the Administration expected-was an Assembly resolution 1) calling for a U.N. "presence" in Lebanon and Jordan, 2) favorably mentioning other points in the U.S. program, however vaguely, and 3) instructing Secretary General Hammarskjold to look into the practical possibilities. That much, after protracted diplomatic debate...
Creating the Myth. Experts in Paris expect the new De Gaulle constitution to get 60% to 65% of the vote in the Sept. 28 referendum, for which 45 million people (including 18 million residents of Algeria and the overseas territories) are already registered. Like shrewd politicians anywhere, De Gaulle and his aides are taking no chances. In Algeria the army is already hard at work on psychologically preparing the voters. ("To condition the Moslem populace, one has to create a De Gaulle myth," declares a recently published directive of the south Algerian military zone. "The picture of the general must...
...them such newly freed items as civil aircraft (including turboprop), all kinds of trucks, tankers under 18 knots, industrial diamonds, all petroleum refinery equipment, all turbines and diesel engines. But for all their cries that the relaxed embargo was a victory of "common sense," the U.S.'s allies expect no dramatic rise in trade with Communist countries that have shown themselves so guided by political whims, so chronically plagued by a shortage of currency or a lack of goods that meet Western specifications. Though Britain's trade with Communist countries, for example, has more than doubled...
...Smokes cigars. Can drink four framboises after dinner with no decline of intellectual focus. Never eats breakfast. Is generous with money. Could organize and run even the French government. Was a choir boy . . . Has nervous blink . . Lives near Paris' Place de la Bastille (in an old building; you expect to find J.J. Rousseau sitting in bed writing when you enter...
...cheery predictions for the future. Said Curtice, who has been more often right than wrong: In 1959 the auto industry will sell about 5,500.000 cars (v. an estimated 4,300,000 in '58), which in turn will "start a chain reaction throughout the whole economy. I should expect a further increase in the gross national product in the fourth quarter, and that this improvement would gather momentum through...