Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Suppose we try to "recognize" Peking. It must be a two-way street. If Peking asks, "Do you recognize us as possessing Formosa," we will promptly answer "No," and that may be the end of "recognition" as a real development of two-way relations. On the other hand, we might find it useful to bargain hard about recognition of Communist China as the mainland regime, making this bargain a part of a larger deal. But recognition as a unilateral act on our part is no panacea and will bring no millennium...
Does Princess Margaret still love Peter Townsend? Into print in the U.S. last week loomed the latest answer to the old poser: The Peter Townsend Story, by Political Journalist Norman Barrymaine, a friend of Townsend's. Barrymaine, leaning heavily on unidentified sources, says that the princess is still that way about her old flame, once told him that she "was too deeply in love with him ever to marry anyone else." "My belief," says Barrymaine, without unearthing any new evidence, "is that Princess Margaret would still like to marry Peter Townsend," although "at the moment the religious and political...
...answer seemed to lie in the complicated formula of twelve-meter-boat design, basically the art of making improvements on existing models. U.S. Designer Olin Stephens improved on the best there was: Vim, a 19-year-old Stephens creation that swept the class back in 1939. Britain's David Boyd, in his first attempt at a twelve-meter, had to improve principally on Evaine, an old British boat that Vim trounced...
Lives there a boss who would fire a nubile, decorative (36-23-36) female assistant simply because she so resembles Cinemorsel Kim Novak that it is downright distracting? Answer...
...often carrying ridicule beyond reason. A single minor Navy officer, for instance, is shown as preventing the Indian government from accepting U.S. atom bombs. Captain Boning supposedly is the only American technical expert at an Asian arms conference, and he ruins the whole show by giving a hesitant answer to a question about A-bombs that a bright high school student could furnish (the reason he is hesitant is that he is sleepy, having spent most of his nights with a Communist-Chinese cutie...