Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Leftists who get caught up in the Communist confession mills have a fair idea of what to expect these days. As long ago as 1940, Budapest-born Arthur Koestler in his novel Darkness at Noon explained something of the techniques used. Thus, when onetime Hungarian Cultural Attaché Paul Ignotus, an active Social Democrat who had read his Koestler, returned to Budapest from Britain to see his ailing father in 1949, he knew the danger he risked. Picked up by the AVO security police a few days after his father's funeral, he was not altogether surprised to find...
...trustees, Ford Foundation officials are apt to go out of their way to emphasize the complete autonomy of the Fund for the Republic. It is literally, says Robert Hutchins, its present head, "a completely disowned subsidiary of the foundation," and when it has spent its $15 million, it can expect to get no more. Its motto, according to Hutchins, is "Feel Free." Its province: the turbulent area of civil liberties...
...with high-temperature melting point, in atomic energy (since they absorb neutrons, some boron compounds can be used as reactor shields), in fire-retardant additives for plastics and paints, in new steel alloys. Says U.S. Borax President James M. Gerstley: "Unless the past reverses itself completely, we have to expect that the demand will at least double again in the next ten years...
Most of the country singers hailing out of Nashville's Grand Ole Opry expect to peddle their wares to the corn belt.and let the pop world go by. Although the kind of music they sing on the granddaddy of the country radio shows has often been taken over by pop singers and made into hits (Tennessee Waltz, You Are My Sunshine), few country singers have made the pop charts on their own. But in the wake of Elvis Presley (not considered genuine country by the connoisseurs), two Nashville favorites have gone to the fore in the pop world...
...revenues have zoomed 400% in the past ten years, accelerating faster than the sales of its top competitors, Burroughs Corp. and National Cash Register Co. Sales and rentals for the first quarter of 1957 hit $215.7 million v. $155.5 million in January-March of 1956. Wall Street brokers expect IBM's gross income to jump 25% a year for the next five years, as U.S. industry steps up automation, notably in the office, where clerical workers are becoming scarce and more costly...