Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After the student finishers reading a text on the screen, he presses a key on the teletype to signal that he is ready to continue. His mechanical teacher then fires a question at him and waits for a response. The correct answer typed back will elicit a "Good" or "That's fine" followed by more questions or new material on the slide screen. If the student's answer is incorrect he'll get a "No" with an explanation and perhaps a mild chiding, "What are you going to do when we get to the hard questions...
...becoming blatantly colonial, one thing is even-clearer than the improbability of the political escalation required by the Corson solution, it is the probability of continued failure of the Westmoreland tactic. Since the former won't be used and the latter won't work, withdrawal, while no "answer" either, will force the Viet- namese to solve their own problems and will serve notice on the world that the U.S. will no longer let incompetent allies get fat while it fights their battles for them. We may not be able to mold our friends, but we can choose them...
...crate with his head sticking out? Everybody remembers greasy kid stuff, but what stuff is supposed to be superior? Which TV manufacturer, to prove that all its money has been poured into developing a better set, shows its board of directors in their undershirts? If a viewer can unhesitatingly answer Braniff, Vitalis and Sylvania, then he is watching too much...
Lindbergh wired tiny Ryan Airlines, Inc. in February 1927. The answer was yes, and Hall, Ryan's only engineer, was as good as his word, producing in 60 days the single-engined craft that Lindy flew 3,610 miles across the Atlantic and into the history books. Died. Francis Cardinal Brennan, 74, Pennsylvania Irishman who rose to the highest Vatican post ever held by an American; of a heart attack; in Philadelphia. A brilliant canon lawyer, Brennan in 1940 was the first American appointed to the Sacred Rota, Roman Catholicism's court of last appeal in marriage...
...answer was: "Who gave who the apple...