Word: answers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Less" [April 18], spotlights increasing, overpowering chaos in air travel. Major problems are created by the need for superairports to serve superjets. Necessarily they must be located at great distances from the megalopolis each serves. And these airports will simply shift confusion from one place to another. Perhaps the answer is containerized people. A gargantuan crane straddles the plane, smoothly lifts the passenger compartment from the plane and deposits it on a monorail flatcar pulled by a power unit. The passengers unbuckle their seat belts and are whisked 150 m.p.h. to the downtown terminal...
...knowing the recent bloody strife between Protestants and Catholics and the centuries-old heritage of hatred, could possibly say that about Northern Ireland? The answer was the Union Party leader and the brand-new Prime Minister, Major James Chichester-Clark, 46, who had won a Unionist Party caucus by one vote from a hard-lining Unionist, Brian Faulkner. Chichester-Clark last month resigned from the Cabinet of the previous Prime Minister, Terence O'Neill, thus helping to force O'Neill's resignation in the face of charges he was soft on Catholicism...
...many unhappy intellectuals, the quick answer is that McCarthy failed in the end, that reformers just nibble at things, and that America needs a good revolution to save itself. In fact, such pessimism may be rather premature. Today, important thinking about moral synthesis is coming from the very scientific intellectuals whom literary intellectuals decry. It was morally sensitive scientists who helped inspire the nuclear-test-ban treaty, and they also lead the most informed debate on the ABM program. In addition, an entire new generation of scientific intellectuals is deeply concerned about ecology and environment-preoccupations that far transcend...
...four-man presidential task force headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew hopes to answer these questions in a report that is scheduled to be issued on Sept. 1. Lee DuBridge, President Nixon's science adviser and a member of the group,* has promised a "balanced program." What that means is not certain, but for their part, NASA officials have let it be known that they will be quite content to settle for some sort of balance between the practical and the visionary. Last week, in a report from its own advisory committee on goals...
Reducing the Rate. The answer to the question of why babies die is that the techniques and knowledge that exist are simply not used in many cases. Dr. Mary Ellen Avery, the new head of pediatrics at Montreal's McGill University, said that the application of knowledge that is now available would reduce the infant-mortality rate in America by 50%. That would give the U.S. the lowest rate of any major nation. It now ranks 14th, behind New Zealand, Australia, Japan, Scandinavia and most other countries of Western Europe...