Word: question
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threats to Berlin, Khrushchev called a press conference in the Sverdlov Hall of the Great Kremlin Palace to explain that he had been grievously misunderstood. Nattily turned out in a dark business suit enlivened by two gold "Hero of the Soviet Union" medals, Nikita spent two hours adroitly fielding questions from 300 Russian and a handful of Western newsmen. The notion that he had given the West an ultimatum to get out of Berlin by May 27, he said, was "an unscrupulous interpretation of our position." How had the six months deadline come about? "We looked up at the ceiling...
...skyscraper on the site of the old railroad station, Gare Montparnasse. As a gesture to the bohemians of Montparnasse, the promoters promised, in addition to a 1,000-room hotel, a shopping center and three floors of parking space, to erect 25 acres of artists' studios. The only question was what kind of art could be produced in the atmosphere of a Left Bank Rockefeller Center. General de Gaulle's artistic czar, Andre Malraux, Minister of State in charge of cultural affairs, gave his approval to the skyscraper. "If we accept the skyscraper, modern architecture will penetrate into...
...looking jail of whitewashed brick at Gwelo last week sat Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 54, who, though a Negro, got a white man's cell to himself. His crime: advocating secession. He wants to take his native Nyasaland out of the Central African Federation with the two Rhodesias. Question: Is Britain once again conferring the martyrdom of prison on a man destined to be the leader of a new nation...
...Question of Country. A lean, grey eagle of a man, Hanson Baldwin at 56 still stands as ramrod stiff as when he graduated from Annapolis in 1924. He has been the Times's military analyst since 1937, won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1942 series on combat in the South Pacific that included the disclosure of the U.S. plight on Guadalcanal. Working his beat, Baldwin first came across Argus "some weeks" before the late August and early September tests, got together the outline of the project "without limitation...
...furor might well force the U.S. to stop the tests. But it could also be argued that Baldwin had a duty to tell the American public in advance about an event that might have serious international implications. Baldwin decided to stay mum.* Says he simply: "It was a question of whether or not you were going to hurt your country...