Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Question of Peace. In speeches the following night, Lawyer Adlai Stevenson said: "It is immensely significant that the organized bar of the country has given this manifest of America's belief in the ideal of a common confidence among nations." Secretary of State Christian Herter added his "unqualified endorsement": "As a world leader, we are setting an exceedingly poor example by such oarochial action as the Connally Amendment...
...opera-house technicians have been keeping their own Teutonically thorough stop watch record of Festival performances since 1876. How the tradition started, or why, no one can remember. But now a former Bayreuth technician has leaked some of the results, affording opera lovers some interesting sidelights on the old question of conductors' tempos and tempers. Items...
...stunned by the PHS endorsement of Sabin vaccine, which was financed by March of Dimes funds and had the powerful support of the National Foundation. Also stunned was Dr. Hilary Koprowski, an early Lederle worker on the vaccine, now at Philadelphia's Wistar Institute. At issue was the question whether the Sabin vaccine was indeed safer than the Cox and Koprowski varieties, as the PHS implied...
...Most tourists think she is an Indian, possibly Pocahontas or Chief Sitting Bull. She has also been accused of being Joan of Arc, Carry Nation, and Balboa discovering the Pacific. But most of those who bother to take note of her at all are almost sure to ask the question: "Why is that Indian wearing those Roman robes...
...upper part of her body, and a great deal more than is necessary about the lower half. She is devoid of expression." Years later, the publisher of the Hartford Courant, having heard that Genius' footing was getting shaky, is said to have observed: "We are faced with the question of whether we want a loose woman reigning over us or a fallen woman in our midst." The 1938 hurricane demonstrated that the fall was imminent, and the bronze Genius was taken down to be melted into wartime scrap in 1942. In her place today stands a lonely lightning...