Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British European Airways flight to London. Last week he went to the airport, fearing that at any moment he would be turned back. But the Polish officials passed him, and Fu Tsun flew safely on to London. Friends hid him out in the country, but he was willing to answer a few questions from the press. What did he think of things in China? Said Fu Tsun tactfully: "Whatever people may think of Mao Tse-tung's policies, I say he is the greatest modern Chinese poet...
...Oriente mountain fastness to a site near the town of Baire, 42 miles from Bayamo. Moving through the Oriente valleys, rebel columns filtered into half a dozen weakly garrisoned small towns, captured Caimanera (pop. 4,000), just across the bay from the U.S. Guantanamo naval base. In answer, the Cuban high command sent two frigates to shell Caimanera, planes to bomb the rebels wherever they showed themselves. Batista committed few troops. Whenever possible, the beleaguered garrisons pulled back; a few surrendered to the rebels. Though official communiques said little, there were reports that Batista's big Santiago garrison, recently...
Perhaps the most persuasive answer to such criticism comes from the 45-year-old Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, where professional training comes only to those who already have college degrees. Columbia requires applicants to show some evidence of bona fide professional interest, turns down two out of three applicants, including some Phi Beta Kappas. The student body of about 70 takes broad subjects in the field, e.g., the law of libel, under an excellent faculty (average salary: more than $10,000) backed up by guest lecturers from Manhattan publications...
...from Curitiba came Anthropology Professor Jose Loureiro of the University of Parana, bringing Koi with him. He had studied every reference to the mysterious Xetás and spent long, frustrating hours with the boy, who refused to answer most questions about his people...
...starring in Archibald MacLeish's play J.B. At the time, Tammy was working in the box office at the Westport (Conn.) Playhouse. "They fired me," she says, "because I lost them $500 giving away free passes." (The habit still afflicts her. At the Downstairs she is apt to answer the telephone outside her dressing room with a cheery "Yes, of course. Six for New Year's Eve. And remember, there's no minimum...