Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...went through the motions. On past vacations, Outdoorsman Eisenhower has permitted only really foul weather to keep him indoors, and even then has chafed at the weather. This time he hardly seemed to care: each morning he asked Hagerty for the weather forecasts, grinned and mock-shivered at the answer (Thomasville temperatures were in the 20s and 30s) returned contentedly to the firqside. Not until his eighth day in Thomasville did he venture forth to go quail hunting. He was so gruff with newsmen who came out to see him ("It's really something when you have to make...
...something happened to President Eisenhower during his second Administration that prevents his matching his earlier personal performance? In the sense of some sort of secret illness, the answer is no. As he had from his heart attack and his ileitis operation, the President made a remarkable recovery from his stroke last November; his doctors say that recovery is now complete and that, beyond a bothersome cold, he has suffered no other illnesses. But in another sense the answer is yes: President Eisenhower is 67; the cumulative effect of his three major illnesses has sapped his second-term strengths. Chief result...
...traveling hundreds of feet below the sea, could the Navy subs fix position accurately? An error of a few hundred yards at launching point could mean a wide miss of the target 1,500 miles away. Advances in celestial navigation and radio astronomy systems helped, but the big answer came from two scientists who developed a gyroscopically oriented navigation system called SINS (for Ship's Inertial Navigation System). After a year's testing aboard a converted cargo ship, SINS racked up an accuracy score of less than half-a-mile deviation, and recently has narrowed that down...
What the North Koreans were up to soon became clear. The U.N.'s armistice negotiations chief. Major General Olaf Keyster, demanded and got a Panmunjom session, received an answer to demands for return of the plane and passengers that was understandable as a ransom note: difficulties would be smoothed over if South Korea would recognize North Korea officially (which it has always refused to do) by entering into direct negotiations for the missing DC-3. As huge mobs of outraged Seoul citizens yelled for action, the answer came from explosive South Korean President Syngman Rhee: "No!" By early this...
Again and again the phone rang. Getty answered with a clear but tentative voice -as if he expected the call to bring him some annoyance. He spoke with a Swedish importer who wanted 20,000 tons of fuel oil a month from Getty's Middle East fields. He turned down an invitation to lunch. He took a call from a shipbuilder in Tokyo about details of a new Getty supertanker. Turning to a pile of cables, he read a report on his new, 18-in. Mideast pipeline, fired off an answer to a Turkish importer's request...