Word: defection
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...congenital eye defect condemned him to thick lenses and excluded him from the wide fraternity of athleticism. Reserved, almost withdrawn as a boy, he read every book in the local library. Later, because he was essentially lonely, he became a joiner. In 1918, his field-artillery regiment was sent to France, where Captain Truman for the first time on record displayed the cockerel courage that was to characterize his career. Later he recalled his greeting to the battery: "I told them I knew they had been making trouble for the previous commanders. I said, 'I didn't come...
...Partial color blindness, a genetic defect that affects over 8,000,000 Americans, is an incurable affliction. But for those who suffer from the most common form of the disease-the inability to distinguish between reds and greens-a Waltham, Mass., optometrist named Harry Zeltzer now offers some relief. He has found that a red contact lens, designed to be worn on only one eye, improves color discrimination. Zeltzer and other optometrists have prescribed the new lens for some 50 men, most of whom report that they can now distinguish colors they have never before seen...
...cape that there had been an explosion in the first stage of the rocket. Actually, NASA explained later, the early burst of flame had been a burn-off of excess fuel: the pumps had continued to run briefly after the shutdown. The real problem, it turned out, was a defect in the Terminal Countdown Sequencer, which supervises the complex operations in the last minutes before a launch...
Though Mary Lou Manachi, 17, of West Paterson, N.J., and Linda Chiarello, 16, of New Providence, N.J., have different interests and career ambitions, the two earnest high school students also have something in common: a life-threatening genetic defect. Both suffer from Cooley's anemia (thalassemia major), a hereditary blood disease resulting in deficient synthesis of hemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying component of blood. Their condition causes cardiac and other complications that kill most of its victims in their teen-age years. The pale, often undersized youngsters may have bone deformities and enlarged spleens and livers; they tire easily...
Then Washington's Center for Auto Safety, which was spawned by Ralph Nader, charged that Cadillac officials had purposely concealed a "life-and-death safety defect" on 1959-60 model cars for nearly 13 years. The problem was in a part called the Pitman arm, a crucial component of the steering system. Center spokesmen said that the metal used in the Pitman arms of more than 200,000 cars was not sufficiently strong and that three people have died in accidents that may have been caused by the faulty part. They also charged that Cadillac officials in 1968 discussed...