Word: expectation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wynn's spectacular slugging is the more remarkable because doctors did not expect him to play at all this year -if ever again. In Philadelphia last August, pursuing a long drive, he crashed into the centerfield wall at full speed-smashing his left elbow and wrist. It took a 45-min. operation and five months in a cast to get his arm back into an approximation of its original shape. But now, says Wynn without the slightest taint of modesty, "I have all the tools to be a superstar." For starters, he has pledged to hit 30 homers, drive...
...since recovered part way from its lonely depression, thanks to lower interest rates and a renewed flow of mortgage money. Lately, however, mortgage rates have rebounded more than two-thirds of the way back to their 1966 heights. If the rise in interest rates continues, as many analysts expect, it can only siphon funds away from mortgages again. Warns John G. Heimann, vice president of the Manhattan investment-banking firm of E.M. Warburg and mortgage consultant to Housing Secretary Robert C. Weaver: "The fragmented, highly specialized mortgage system, responsible to so many agencies, has fallen behind, never to catch...
...burgeoning populations. Dramatizing the role it can play, Cat recently completed a test project in Costa Rica demonstrating that modern equipment can clear the densest jungle thicket for about $50 an acre; with older methods, the cost can run as high as $500. Beyond immediate clearing jobs, Caterpillar can expect to reap long-range benefits from seeing foreign countries become agriculturally self-sufficient. Explains Blackie: "If they don't have to import wheat, they can import machinery...
Moreover, we had a right, given this view of the world, to expect two further and vital factors to be associated with our involvement. We had a right to expect that its necessity would be appreciated and supported by the American people -- as our economic and political intervention in Turkey and Greece and Western Europe following World War II were supported or as our military intervention in Korea in 1950 was supported. And it was reasonable to expect that the most effective support would come not from those who automatically rally to the flag when the guns sound but from...
Finally, given this view of the world, there was every reason to expect that the American initiative in Vietnam would be welcomed by the rest of the non-Communist nations. Previous initiatives had attracted such applause. The closer a nation to the danger, the greater the prospective applause; for one who could tell, after all, who was the next on the list. So the United States would both justify and enhance her claim to moral as well as economic and military leadership by assuming a commanding role in combatting the common menace in Indo-China...