Word: answerable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Friendly Five. To avoid a head-on collision with France, the ministers of the "friendly Five" worked out a com promise formula that is not likely to satisfy anyone completely but may cool matters. The formula agrees that Brit ain should be given a definite answer to its application by the Six this week, just as London demands. But it further provides that if France's intransigence prevents a unanimous reply, as seems certain, the whole matter will be put off and discussed later...
...colleagues in the California state colleges. Shortly before he won the award, however, Yablonsky-who is now studying the hippie movement-was subpoenaed to testify at the marijuana trial of a friendly flower child. On the stand, Yablonsky pleaded possible self-incrimination and refused to answer nine questions aimed at discovering whether he had observed anyone smoking...
...start has been made toward providing legal services for the poor. The rich have always had the best lawyers. But what of the middle class, faced with fees that often place good legal help all but out of reach? An important answer could be group legal services-the services of a lawyer offered by an organization to members at a reduced rate or for free. Trouble is that such services violate the codes of ethics of the American Bar Association and the bars of most states...
...William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury a religious novel? Faulkner himself was a somewhat cynical agnostic, and few readers would find much spiritual comfort in his dour chronicle of the Compson family. But to Professor Nathan Scott of the University of Chicago Divinity School, the answer is clearly yes. Behind the novel's secular fa?ade, he argues, lies a poetic expression of what theology calls kairos-the divine gift of time span in which man exists on earth...
...Lockheed Aircraft Corp. still had a multimillion-dollar ace up its sleeve. The Army had earlier awarded the company an $86 million development contract for an aircraft to ride shotgun for the vulnerable troop-carrying helicopters in Viet Nam. Last week at Van Nuys Airport, Calif., Lockheed put its answer in the air: a prototype of the radical AH-56A Cheyenne-a combination helicopter and fixed-wing plane-gave a 15-minute display of its capabilities for members of the military, Government and the press...