Word: guesswork
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...chance attitude, Washington newsmen already are beginning to wonder if likable Pierre Salinger will live up to the professional performance of his predecessor as presidential press secretary. Unlike Jim Hagerty, Salinger sits in on few top-level conferences with his boss, thus often has to turn back questions with guesswork (not always accurate) or with: "I don't know, I wasn't there." Last week Salinger led off an answer with his customary "I believe that . . ." and got barked at by one fed-up reporter: "I don't want to know what you believe, I want...
...army at the crash sites. From Dayton, Ohio, where he had just delivered a speech honoring the Wright brothers, FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada sped to New York to direct the investigation. The answers to all the dark question marks would come only with careful sifting of evidence, but educated guesswork by trained observers already pointed...
...Weather Bureau told how Tiros' twin TV cameras, riding 400 miles up, saw things no one had noticed before-and gave a new dimension to the not-so-precise science of meteorology. Until Tiros, the story of what happens overhead had been a matter of educated guesswork, a smattering of facts well-larded with interpolation. Only a few areas (Europe, parts of the U.S., Japan) have tight networks of weather observation posts, and even these can only monitor a relatively small patch of weather. A ground observer can see cloud effects about five miles away. If he has radar...
...year with the really unknown names (Karl Ditters von Dit-tersdorf) that make his opponents uneasy. But what separates the great player from the merely good one is his ability to pronounce names correctly that most people muff ("Loo-EE-jee Da-la-pee-CO-la"). To take the guesswork out of pronunciation, Grayhill Productions has now issued an LP recording that no serious player can afford to be without...
...dumps of extra nuclear fuel after first warning the surrounding inhabitants" to flee. Those who looked back (e.g., Lot's wife) "were blinded and perished." A little nervously, the Literary Gazette prefaced this saucer-eyed silliness with the caveat that it "stands on the borderline of daring scientific guesswork and scientific fantasy...