Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there are many roundabout ways to change the fate of any quiz whiz on the high-priced shows. In their desire to keep their audiences, many producers use odd methods both to keep and lose contestants. For a heretofore untold story of how they do it, and the answer to a question that has tickled the curiosity of millions of TV watchers, see TV & RADIO, The $60 Million Question...
...that day Humphrey held a press conference to explain the latest Eisenhower budget. His prepared statement, written with White House assistance and approved word for word by Dwight Eisenhower, left an eminently proper impression of a Treasury Secretary defending his boss's budget. Then came a question-and-answer period-and George Humphrey struck out on his own. If long-range expenditures are not reduced, Humphrey predicted, the nation will see "a depression that will curl your hair, because we are just taking too much money out of this economy that we need to make jobs." On television...
...executive board of the 1,350,000-member union said when a hearing under satisfactory conditions is held the entire board will answer the charges, not just President Dave Beck, target of Senate and AFL-CIO investigations...
...today's students too tightly chained to the textbook and the lecture, too little prodded into original work? Charles Odegaard, dean of the College of Literature. Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan, felt that the answer, when he wrote a special letter to some top members of his faculty in 1955, was yes. "There is a constant threat," he warned his readers, "that our educational practices will be dictated by the lowest common denominator...
...would have cost Louisiana State University $5,000,000 to build the school of veterinary medicine it so badly wanted, and L.S.U. had only $500.000 for the project. What could it do? The answer was easy: L.S.U. put its problem to an organization called the Southern Regional Education Board, arranged to send its future vets to campuses in other states. Had the problem come up only a few yearsbefore. L.S.U. would still be stumped...