Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quiz shows fixed? The question agitates millions of TV viewers to whom the mind-rending programs have become not only a favorite pastime but almost a national institution. For an inside account of how one of the shows-the popular Dotto-was bounced off the air for downright crookedness, see SHOW BUSINESS, Scandal of the Quizzes. That story follows other reports by TIME'S new section that have won high readership ratings since it started three weeks ago. Among them: last week's piece on the agents who find and coach quiz-show contestants, which served...
...second place militarily and in second place in the exploration of space." The syndrome had one of its most remarkable manifestations last fortnight, when Massachusetts' Democratic Senator John F. Kennedy arose on the Senate floor to say: "Once the Soviets are in the driver's seat, the question arises as to what basic strategy we employ. The classic strategy [is that] of the underdog-and soon we will be the underdog...
...essential issue, said the appellate court's majority opinion, written by Judge Marion C. Matthes, was "whether overt public resistance, including mob protest, constitutes sufficient cause to nullify an order of the federal court." To that question the Circuit Court gave a stern answer: "The time has not yet come in these United States when an order of a federal court must be whittled away, watered down or shamefully withdrawn in the face of violent and unlawful acts of individual citizens...
...experience and versatility were turned to the deepening and long-neglected problem of antisubmarine warfare. He became one of four ASW carrier division Atlantic commanders in the Navy's Hunter-Killer Force (HUKFOR). With the three others, he was called before Arleigh Burke to answer the question: What could the Navy do to improve its submarine defenses? Hardly hesitating, Thach outlined a plan for a semipermanent task force, chartered to experiment with and develop new antisubmarine defense systems. When Thach finished talking, Arleigh Burke grinned. "Jimmy Thach," he said, "has just made an unfortunate speech. He doesn...
Washington was host this week to a vitally important meeting of creditors. Delegates from the U.S., Britain, West Germany, Canada and Japan gathered in a high-ceilinged conference room at World Bank headquarters to decide what they could do about Debtor India. It was a billion-dollar question...