Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Jan. 20 issue, a University of Buffalo physics professor tells a sad story of approximately 60% student failure in the physics courses, and blames it on "permitting woolly-brained educationists to impose their peculiarly distorted concept of the meaning of education on our school system." The answer may simply be poor instruction, or perhaps Professor "Pancho" Bobie's [Jan. 13] school of misguided thought that almost anyone can teach if he has sense, character and a basic knowledge of history, science, languages and literature...
...atmosphere. It may even tell, merely by crossing the oceans at a known speed, how far the continents really are from each other-a question that still defies the more meticulous mapmakers. If the measurements are accurate enough, i.e., down to the last foot, it may answer in time the old geological argument about whether North America and Europe are slowly drifting apart. It would also give more accurate firing data to intercontinental ballistic missilemen...
...Hartack temper took place last spring in Louisville the evening after Bill's Derby mount, Calumet's Gen. Duke, was beaten in the Derby Trial. A Los Angeles turf writer approached the jockey at dinner and asked a polite question about the race. "I didn't come here to answer questions," Hartack snarled. "I came to eat. If you want to ask me questions, see me around the barns tomorrow...
...airlines' mayday pleas for a fare boost, the Civil Aeronautics Board last August gave a majestic, bureaucratic answer. It was already conducting something called the General Passenger Fare Investigation, planned for hearings to go leisurely on until 1959. As they droned on, platoons of economists racked up 5,000 pages of testimony proving that 1) fares are now 9% lower than in 1949, while costs are astronomically higher, 2) the airlines cannot raise money to buy jet fleets. But all this failed to excite CAB. Not a single one of the five board members even bothered to show...
Gradually, through the musings of other mourners, the answer emerges. A gentle drunkard, Machek's brother-in-law, dreamily remembers how Stanislaw came to the U.S., how he became foreman in a knitting mill, fathered five daughters. Stella herself appears, a slut (or so it seems) newly married to a fat cloak-and-suiter. As details of her childhood come into focus, the reader approaches the shattered central figure of Stanislaw Machek...