Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What had happened to change a routine run into disaster? One answer came clear when an autopsy on Engineer Wilburn showed evidence of hypertensive heart disease-suggesting that he had died suddenly of a heart attack. But where was Fireman Andrew, whose duty it was to check his engineer past all three warning signals-and in an emergency take over himself...
...already conceded), but the size of the vote. Heavy participation could be taken as a vote of confidence in De Gaulle's abilities to solve the Algerian dilemma. "The majority in Algeria will give De Gaulle the moral position before the world to continue the war. We must answer-militarily, politically, and diplomatically," explained an F.L.N. member...
...condemned the West for being "repulsively materialistic." If the "wonderful springs of the mind and the spirit in American existence" can "be tapped and mediated to the rest of the world," says Malik, a "spiritualized materialism" might grow up to embody Western life and faith and provide the saving answer to Communism...
...Hollywood make a movie about the love affair between a psychopathic middle-aged lecher and a twelve-year-old nymphet? When they bought Vladimir Nabokov's bestselling novel Lolita (TIME, Sept. 1), Director Stanley Kubrick and Producer James B. Harris gambled $150,000 that they will find an answer. "Basically," said Kubrick, "this story is a very funny character relationship." Hollywood wags saw one solution: make the principals a few years older and cast Maurice Chevalier opposite Brigitte Bardot...
...world championship match to Italy last winter, Crawford is an inveterate gambler, plays poker, canasta, gin and pinochle for money, as well as bridge. Well supplied with the egoism that seems necessary to bridge greatness, he was once asked to name his ideal partner, unhesitatingly rasped out his answer: "Another John Crawford...