Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...half-raised in greeting with fingers waggling briskly, Anastas Mikoyan, the Kremlin's No. 2 man, was busier than a checker in a supermarket on a Saturday afternoon. In the space of a week, he whirled through official and unofficial Washington, raced on to luncheons, dinners and informal question games in Cleveland. Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles. In between appointments, he inspected stores, gave candy to a baby, shook hands along auto assembly lines, peered at new gadgets and chomped on an airline's free Chiclets...
...groups "better fitted to direct man's future biological and cultural development," said Nobel Prizewinner George W. Beadle (TiME, July 14) at a Washington forum. Sure that men now have the skill if not the wisdom for "directing our own evolutionary futures." Geneticist Beadle raised an ominous question: "Can we go on indefinitely defending as a fundamental freedom the right of individuals to determine how many children they will bear, without regard to the biological or cultural consequences...
...achievements were beginning to make up for Sputnik jolts to the U.S.'s pride and prestige, the Russians sent their Lunik soaring far beyond where any man-made object had ever penetrated before. Once again the world marveled at the U.S.S.R.'s technological prowess. Pressing and immediate question: Why is the U.S. still lagging in a race that may decide whether freedom has any future...
...they [the West Germans] wish to make commitments on the second section of the dam five years beforehand?" In other words, Nasser is stuck with the Russians exclusively at the dam site until 1964, and they can work like beavers if they want to or sulk like turtles. Question: Where does this leave Nasser if the Russians decide to do more than mildly regret his campaign against Arab Communists...
What is the motive for the push into space? This question gets many sharply conflicting answers. Some military strategists believe that a U.S. rocket base on the moon, which could never be destroyed by surprise attack, would provide the supreme deterrent to any earth aggressor. Most scientists do not agree. Nor do they think much of the idea of armed satellite bases. They see little reason to shoot from a satellite when a rocket shot from solid ground can hit any target on earth. But satellites may prove to have value as "eyes in the sky" over enemy territory...