Word: answering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked Capehart: "Who are these cherished colleagues? Am I one of them?" For answer, Kerr, deadpan, asked permission to revise his earlier statement: "I desire to have the word 'some' changed to the word 'one,' and . . . the word 'colleagues' changed to ... 'colleague.' " Undaunted, Homer Capehart unfurled the flag: "I would rather be a friend of the President of the United States without any brains than to be a friend of the Senator from Oklahoma with brains...
...night follows day." But Thorneycroft is loth to do more than exhort his countrymen to work harder and resist gains that cancel themselves out. Committed both to freedom from controls and to an expanding economy ("Wages are going up and ought to go up"), Thorneycroft has no answer to inflation except the conviction that growth in time will restore balance in Britain. The failure to have any better answer is perhaps the chief explanation of the Tory Macmillan government's present unpopularity in the country...
...Washington, U.S. District Judge Charles McLaughlin upheld the conviction of Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller on one count of contempt of Congress for refusing to answer two questions on the identity of persons attending a Communist writers' meeting, put to him last year by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Judge McLaughlin, who had already dismissed the first count on Miller's plea that the Supreme Court had ruled in the Watkins case that Congress may investigate only to alter or initiate legislation, last week fined him $500 and gave him a one-month suspended sentence...
...first indicted as the major cause of the radical increase in lung cancer, scarcely more than 1% of cigarettes had filter tips. Today at least 40% have them, and tobacco experts expect the figure soon to hit 75%. But do the filters help? Up to now. the cynical answer has been that they help to sell cigarettes, and nothing more. Last week a congressional committee* opened an investigation of cigarette filters, for which the public pays a premium of $500,000 a day. Weight of the evidence: there is hope in improved filters...
...with the much higher risk for those who smoke two packs or more). So, Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute told the committee, a filter that stops 40% or more of tar from a regular cigarette made of good tobacco "will be a partial answer." But during the five-year boom in filters, no such tip has been marketed. Testified Dr. Wynder: "Some companies have taken advantage of the public's desire for filtered cigarettes and its equal wish for good tobacco flavor by marketing increasingly ineffective filters...