Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your July 8 Letters column reports Mrs. E. Torkilsen as asking: "Is there any ideal way we can legally get rid of Chief Justice Warren?" The answer is yes, elect him President...
Months before Dori joined the family, Dameron, a city fireman in nearby Washington, D.C., had applied for a boy from Maryland's Montgomery County Social Service League. Then last week the Damerons themselves got a surprise. The agency's answer was no. Reason: Dori, now 2½, has an exceptionally high IQ-147 ("very superior"); to bring a child of average mentality into the family, said the league, would cause hardship for Dori as well as for the baby, whose IQ might be lower...
...Later recreated as a ministry, the MVD, though the old name stuck. * Security Boss Ignatiev, who may know a great deal about Stalin's death two months later, is still alive, a full member of the Central Committee and the only living ex-NKVD boss. * Khrushchev's answer, delivered last week in Czechoslovakia: "On a hungry stomach, Marxist-Leninism may be very difficult to un derstand. It is not wrong to throw in a piece of bacon and a piece of butter in the course of improving the theory of Marx...
...states that dare to accuse France of colonialism," he asked, "is there not a Frenchman proud to answer, in which country among you is there less imperialism, less racism, less enslavement than in ours? It is not to the French, but to civilized public opinion that I pose this simple question: if a number of your compatriots were established anywhere for a long time, would you be so cowardly as to abandon them? Do not count on us to do that. Do not count on us to sacrifice the other side of the Mediterranean as if it were...
...conservative polio experts are arguing that more shots, not fewer, are needed. Not enough time has elapsed, and not enough children inoculated with commercial vaccine have been tested, to show whether antibody levels high enough to give immunity are maintained for more than a year or two. The recommended answer: a booster shot every year. By the law of averages, this would also minimize the chance that any individual might receive successive doses of safe but impotent vaccine...