Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many Indians, the sight of Communists floundering is a source of malicious merriment. Parodying Nikita Khrushchev's rasping answer to a question about Hungary during his U.S. visit, a columnist for the Indian Express wondered what the Reds were going to do about "the rat Comrade Mao has thrust down the throat of the Communist Party, and which it can neither spit out nor swallow." With evident cheerfulness, he added: "There is, at present, great danger that the rat will suffocate the Communist Party of India...
...four years, U.S. and Filipino diplomats have been jousting over the vexed question of U.S. military bases in the Philippines. Last week, on the eve of his recall to Washington (to become an adviser to Secretary of State Herter...
...never been a monolithic bloc, even if the Russians do call it the U.S.'s "mechanical majority." As Mexican Delegate Luis Padilla Nervo puts it, "the Latin Americans do not follow instructions from anybody except their own governments." Compared to the Soviet bloc, which votes solid on every question, Latin America is ruggedly independent. In 1957, for example, Mexico, Guatemala, Haiti and Bolivia disagreed with the U.S. more than half the time...
...past contestants reappeared in the newspapers to plead innocence or cast suspicion, and TV reporters wrote reams of copy designed to show that they had really been in the know all along, considerable suspicion piled up against CBS's $64,000 programs, Question and Challenge. Even the great, granite TV-screen image of New York's Manufacturers Trust Company, with its dignified vice president and two uniformed guards, turned out to be hollow; the bank had guarded the questions all right, but had only the word of the producers that no one else had seen them...
...millions hang on the results of the quizzes, in which sterile parrot knowledge was put to artificial use, was a commentary on our public values." As if to support McGill's point, the New York Daily News's inquiring photographer asked six New Yorkers a $64,000 question: "Would you have any qualms about appearing on a [rigged] quiz show?" Answered five out of six: No, I'd take the money. No amount of public naivete or cupidity could excuse the networks' lack of responsibility. Said CBS's Stanton: "As I see it with...