Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Joaquin Valley to bring up to date a story of fault and weakness that fascinated the pundits 25 years ago. His question: Whatever happened to the Okies-the thousands of desperate farm families that fled drought and Depression and swarmed into California in the 1930s? The answer turned out to be a story of adversity that turned to strength for both a migrant people and a region of fabulous fertility. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Harvesters...
...promising answer to the problem is the Navy's 1,500-mile test-missile Polaris. Reason: it is fueled with a solid propellant. The Navy turned to solid fuels because it wants a missile that can be fired from submarines or surface vessels, and liquid-oxygen fueling is too complex for shipboard handling. Since solid-fuel missiles can be fired in the minutes needed to arm their warhead and make the final check on their guidance and control systems. Air Force Missile Boss Major General Ben Schriever is interested in Polaris, has a team of technicians sitting...
...West would call him crazy, said Nikita. His answer was to quote a Russian proverb: "The dog barks and the wind carries the sound away." Barked Nikita: "This program is stronger than the H-bomb. If we catch up with the U.S., we will have hit the pillars of capitalism with the most powerful torpedo...
...pistol, a fervent young woman named Chin Lan Tse patrols the dikes that protect her village's cotton fields from the waters of the Grand Canal. But - hark! - what is that sinister shadow slinking away near by? As a dedicated Young Communist, Chin Lan Tse knows the answer: it is a skulking saboteur in the employ of the decadent Kuomintang clique. Chin Lan Tse pulls the trigger. "Bang!" and the bullet flies out. "Ah yah!" bellows the fascist running dog of capitalism as he vanishes in the night. Dauntless Chin Lan Tse pursues him, falls into a ditch. What...
...York Herald Tribune's rumpled, rotund Art Buchwald, 32, whose tongue-in-cheeky, Paris-based column (TIME, Sept. 16) is carried by 46 other U.S. papers and the Paris Trib, the portentous triviality of the questions offered an irresistible cue for lampoonery. In a question-and-answer column resembling the transcript of a real-life White House press conference, a presidential spokesman identified only as "Jim" started out by apologizing to reporters for arriving late from the Lido, a Paris cabaret famed for its comely, nude show girls. Getting down to business, Buchwald's Jim fidgeted through...