Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WILL the U.S. have a major influenza epidemic this fall? With a massive outbreak of the disease now sweeping around the world from its spawning ground in Red China, the answer ordinarily might be yes. But thanks to modern medical detective work and the efforts of vaccinemakers, there is a good chance that the enemy can be held in check. To follow the advance of the virus, and the measures taken to outwit it. TIME gathered up-to-the-minute reports from a dozen nations in the Far East and Europe. See MEDICINE, The War on Mutant...
...military courts cannot try such civilians as Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith, who can? Clearly, no U.S. civilian court now has venue in such overseas cases. -Should Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith-and others like them-be turned over to the countries in which they committed their crimes? That answer would raise such a row as to make the noisy case of Specialist William Girardt seem a quiet thing indeed. Or are Mrs. Covert and Mrs. Smith answerable to no force of justice? Discussing the decision with other officers last week, a top Pentagon lawyer joked grimly: "Watch your wives...
...think anyone like us could ever have a house like that?" a Polish housewife asked her husband as they stood fn Poznan gazing wistfully at a snug, gadget-filled house typical of middle-income U.S. suburbia. "Not in a thousand years!" came the answer from another gawper near by. "And even if they let you have it, the housing authorities would jam two other families in with...
...election was forced, scenting that they might pick up some of the 37 seats now held by the discredited Poujadists. The Socialists, whose votes Pflimlin next solicited, were not anxious to face their electoral supporters at this month's party congress as supporters of a Catholic Premier. "Just answer yes or no," said Pflimlin. The Socialists answered...
...leak developed, and Colonel Stapp, who was following by helicopter, decided that Kittinger should start down after 2½ hours. Otto Winzen, maker of the balloon, relayed the decision. Kittinger replied in code that he would not come down. Winzen pleaded. Back from 18 miles overhead came the coded answer: "Come and get me." Stapp and Winzen were afraid that hypoxia (lack of oxygen) had unsettled their pilot, but soon they recognized Kittinger's normal style of humor...