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...things are going these days, it's the optimist who thinks bread will cost $2 a loaf within five years. The pessimist says it will cost 2 rubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 25, 1957 | 11/25/1957 | See Source »

...hopes to balance Japanese trade by boosting exports to $3.1 billion while holding imports to $3.2 billion. Instead of leaping ahead by 10% to 20% each year, national income and industrial production may only grow 3% or 4% next year. Says Finance Minister Ichimada, who calls himself "a realistic optimist": "Our keynote is austerity. There can be no improvement in living standards without growth. But stability is lost if the foundations of growth are destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Naka-Darumi in Japan | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

Germans call Erhard "Herr Optimist." Says Erhard: "I'm no optimist, but a realist who knows the capacity of free-market economy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Engineer of a Miracle | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

...this situation, I am an optimist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman of Zion | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

Unconditional Conditions. With the injection of Gaza and Aqaba into the debate, the optimist began a war of nerves that was to last for six tense and confusing weeks. Nobody mobilized or signed up "volunteers" in embassies around the world, but diplomats frantically shuttled about, going without sleep, drafting and redrafting documents that never reached public print. Chiefs of state engaged in heavy cannonading in a rivalry for favorable world opinion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Watchman of Zion | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

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