Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Togni could also expect to hear plenty of opposition from the enti themselves, and their entrenched hangers-on. "We object to the new minister," said an E.N.I. spokesman flatly. Much as he might like to, Togni will probably be unable to turn the government's profitable businesses over to private enterprise, and thus leave the government to run only those which need to exist but cannot be self-sustaining. What he does hope to do is to eliminate obsolete enti, organize the rest into one coherent and responsible whole. Even so modest an achievement would reverse a dangerous trend...
Today everybody expects to live longer. But the man who can give the best longevity estimate, at least for one out of every five Americans, is Carrol Meteer Shanks, president of the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, which has 33.2 million carefully analyzed policyholders. By charting a man's age, background, diseases, job, habits, even his morals, the Pru can chart the odds on the death age down to the last decimal. The Pru's tables show that a male policyholder aged 21 will probably live to be 73 years old, one aged 30 will live...
...course, also knows what odds to expect on its president, who turns out to be the perfect risk. At 58, with a trim 175 Ibs. spread over his 5-ft.-10-in. frame. Shanks is lean and rosily healthy. As insurance pamphlets advise, he likes to get eight hours' rest most nights-10 p.m. to 6 a.m. He does an hour's calisthenics before eating a sensibly big breakfast. Trlis other meals are light; he tries to keep lunch within 300 calories and dinner within 700. He does not smoke, rarely drinks, and has few financial worries...
...varsity rugby team gave M.I.T. a hint of what to expect on its trip to California next week, as it outplayed the Engineers by a 16-3 margin at Smith Field on Saturday...
...press officer went blank when asked whether Egypt and Jordan could expect similar treatment. U.S. aid to these two Arab states was suspended at the same time as aid to Israel--when the Oct. 29 fighting broke...