Word: defection
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...McKusick, a Rhineland Jew was hit in the gonads by either a cosmic ray or a ray from radioactive rock such as granite. By a billion-to-one chance, the ray damaged one of the genes that govern biochemical development in the embryo's nervous system, leaving a defect that impairs many automatic functions and sensory perception. While the victim's fertility was unimpaired, reasons McKusick, half of his many descendants carried the defective gene with them during a 13th century Jewish migration to Eastern Europe, the area that became the Pale of Settlement by a series...
Incensed, the Dutch government immediately declared Li persona non grata, gave him 24 hours to leave the country. Amid reports that the murdered Hsu had been trying to defect to the West, Dutch police surrounded the Chinese mission in order to question any of his fellow welding delegates who might try to leave. None...
...Cubans finally made the scene aboard a Puerto Rican tugboat, which ferried them ashore from a Cuban freighter that dropped anchor just outside the three-mile limit. Their reception was warm indeed. Cops swarmed all over them. Shock squads of exiles followed them everywhere, trying to persuade them to defect. Officials turned up with telephones, at the other end of which were relatives who had already fled Cuba. A Puerto Rican bus driver, hauling Castro's swimming team, stopped outside a house hastily labeled "Refuge," opened the doors and asked hopefully, "Anyone staying here?" There were even two major...
...spooks outnumbered the Cuban spikes two to one. But somehow they all overlooked Juan Pablo Vega Romero, an 18-year-old wrestler, who by week's end was the only Cuban athlete to defect to the West. Juan Pablo had to manage his escape all by himself. Wearing a borrowed Puerto Rican sweater, he sneaked out of the Cuban compound, caught a bus to the nearest Catholic church. There he found a Colombian priest, who took him to a Puerto Rican assemblyman, who passed him on to a U.S. Immigration officer, who after a check with Washington, granted...
Makeup must never become a mask, Pablo insists. "Even a so-called defect can be interesting," he says. He had Italian Beauty Donna Livia Aldobrandini's Roman nose photographed in profile for Town & Country. "The more crooked the better," he stated firmly. "Don't try to hide what you think is bad; just wear it proudly...