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...hide the tre mendous promise of his words, Dillon vowed that the U.S. would take the lead in securing $20 billion in low-interest loans over the next ten years to raise Latin America's living standards. "We welcome the revolution of rising expectations" he said, "and we intend to transform it into a revolution of rising satisfactions...
...said frankly that the Western powers are pushing the world to a dangerous divide, and the threat of an armed attack on socialist states cannot be excluded." Khrushchev hastily repeated his assurance that Russia means no harm in Berlin with its proposed East German peace treaty. "We do not intend to infringe upon any lawful interests of the Western powers," he said. "Barring of access, blockade of West Berlin is entirely out of the question...
Passion for Quality. Now back on the job after his third hospitalization for cancer in 18 months. Fred Maytag staunchly says: '"I do not intend to diminish my activities in any respect." He is acutely aware that Grandfather Maytag's most valuable bequest was his craftsman's passion for high mechanical quality. Mass production has made this increasingly hard to achieve-especially in complicated automatic washers. So once again, Maytag is bucking the trend with a pilot program giving each worker a more complex role to perform on the assembly line. Says one woman employee, whose...
...meet a wide range of military threats. In a televised speech from the White House, and in a legislative message to Congress next day, the President requested an additional $3,454,600,000 for his defense budget, raising requests for fiscal 1962 to a record $47.5 billion. "We intend," he said, summing up the requests, "to have a wider choice than humiliation or all-out nuclear action...
...gives one cold shivers to think that persons who never intend to risk their own skin and blood deliberately cause a development that in the end must lead to a bloody conflict...