Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...really mobilize until the fall, however. After some initial confusion, its Freshman Orientation Committee joined the many other agencies offering advice and consolation to the bewildered Freshmen. It opened an information booth in the Union, planted members in Mem Hall to answer questions at registration, and conducted guided tours of the University...
...Britain's Harvey Moore, observer for the International Association of Jurists, went up to the banked microphones. The delegates cheered the news of Nanking's fall (see FOREIGN NEWS). Asked Moore: Did the partisans of peace want the Chinese civil war to stop? No, was the bellowed answer. Cried Moore: "You cannot be for war and peace at the same time." Freedom of the individual, of the press, of elections, were "vital to peace," he said, and asked: "Where are the cheers?" There were none. He declared that the "bureaucrats of the proletariat no less than the bureaucrats...
...desperate need for new housing. In San Juan, for example, handsome, tropical-style homes line many an avenue, but many are close to the dismal slums of packing-box houses like El Fanguito (Little Mudhole) that stretches two miles along the tidal flats. The government's answer was the San José Housing Project, now almost complete, which will provide shelter for 6,200 families from El Fanguito. So far only a few families have been moved out, and officials privately admit that it may be necessary to ring the slum with barbed wire to prevent new squatters from...
...answer, CBS finally decided, was that most people tend to retain what they see more readily than what they hear. Television, which demands closer visual attention than the ordinary, unselected sights of everyday life, closer even than movies, may exaggerate this tendency. The TV audience had not seen the locksmith, but had heard him speak several times during the play. Yet, reasons CBS, the audience was looking so hard that it forgot to listen, and could not place the murderer's voice. Later that night CBS was forced to telecast a "news bulletin" announcing the identity of the killer...
Quick Pickup. In high dudgeon, the American Automobile Association last week asked major U.S. oil companies why, with oil in surplus, had the price of gasoline gone up just as motorists were getting ready for summer driving? While other oil companies mulled over an answer, Mid-Continent Petroleum Corp. cut prices if a gallon in Kansas City, the first sizable cut in gasoline prices since...