Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...language of Article II, Section I, Clause 6 (specifying conditions under which the Vice President assumes the presidency), Delaware's Delegate John Dickinson raised a troublous question. Asked Dickinson: What is meant by the term disability, and who is to be the judge of it? Dickinson got no answer. Last week, 170 years and 33 Presidents later, there was still no answer...
...become the week's center of government: an oaken table in the corner of Sherman Adams' office. Adams briefed the group on the facts of the President's illness. Later, the President's doctors entered the room. Asked Nixon: "How is he?" The answer: improved...
...wondering how-and even if-the Government could carry on in the President's absence. Few such questions arose last week. Says Nixon: "We had been over it all before." Bill Rogers was asked if any legal document or procedure was necessary to provide for interim administration. His answer: no. That said, the five-man group got down to business. How the U.S. Government operated last week is best explained in the work of the group's acknowledged leader, Richard Nixon...
...Nehru is not used to heckling. But the audience he faced day after day in New Delhi's Parliament House was the most critical he had faced for years. For India's vaunted $10.8 billion second five-year plan, launched with high hopes last year as an answer to India's ancient poverty, was in desperate trouble, and every legislator was demanding: "What do we do now?" Nehru had no answer, except to insist that "the basic structure" of the five-year plan would be carried out. Demanded the M.P.s: "How? How?" Last week, after ten days...
Where had the pork gone? The answer was that the government was exporting the pork to Russia to pay for industrial imports-a fact the government keeps quiet for fear of angering its hungry people. But in Shanghai, when a batch of frozen pork is rejected by the Russians for inferior quality, the Chinese are allowed to buy what the Russians will not take. And once in a while, a Communist newspaper makes a slip. Example: one Cantonese newspaper impressed on its readers that 22,000 Ibs. of frozen pork can be exchanged abroad for one tractor...