Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...alternative is cooperating with Batista in the election that he has set for June1. To this idea, rebels of every coloring snap one answer: "We will not deal with a gangster for our country." They will stick with Castro, who may become the brilliant liberator that his young followers see, or only, as one older rebel worried last week, "a man on horseback." It was not lost on thoughtful Cubans last week that Colonel Fermin Cowley, murdered by the rebels and mourned by Batista, was an idealistic young rebel himself 25 years...
Tidbits & Optimism. By contrast with Hagerty, his new associate press secretary, Mrs. Anne Williams Wheaton (TIME, Nov. 18), is not a party to top-level Administration decisions-and not an experienced reporter. Though disgruntled newsmen accused Pressagent Wheaton of holding out on them when she protested her inability to answer their questions, the fact was that Vice President Nixon, Sherman Adams and other White House aides neither informed her of the real nature of Ike's illness nor consulted her on the abstrusely worded report in which Ike's doctors tactlessly took credit for being right in their...
...looks as if a potential enemy has developed quick, automatic devices for breaking a radar's code, more complicated electronic codes must be devised. Some missiles have abandoned radar in favor of heat-sensitive eyes that guide them to the hot tail pipes of an enemy airplane. One answer to this dodge is to release decoys with powerful flares to attract the missile...
...three-P football: punt, pass and pray for the breaks. They kicked repeatedly on third down, completed a couple of passes, even got a few breaks when Navy backs fumbled the waterlogged ball. But all their prayers only produced a Navy attack for which they could not fathom an answer...
...Shoghi Effendi in London last month. Bahais from Illinois to Iran speculated on whom he had appointed to carry on as Guardian. At Bahai world headquarters in Haifa last week 26 of the 27 "Hands of the Cause of God," chief stewards of the faith, gathered to find the answer in Shoghi Effendi's will. But where was the will...