Word: defections
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...report revived an issue that excited considerable debate in World War II, when many athletes were turned down for military service because of some physical defect...
...remarked that he had bought a special photoelectric cell for his experiments. Such a cell would be useful for observing flashes of light given off by the lithium-helium reaction. Richter also said that he was using an Argentine material-and Argentina is a producer of lithium. The main defect in the method: only a few particles in a million prove effective, reducing the efficiency of such processes to the vanishing point. Proof by Isotope. The consensus last week seemed to be that Physicist Richter may well have gotten promising results on a tiny laboratory scale and jumped...
...From Here to Eternity" avoids emphasis of one important aspect of Army reality: the repetitiousness, monotony and boredom. Since other authors hand pushed that atmosphere to the point of reproducing it, the contantly imaginative writing and reliance on action has more of a virtue than a defect. Certainly these are minor lapses, in a book that gives an extraordinary impression of honesty...
...also fell more & more into disfavor with the Iranian government. By last week the company's strained relations with Iran formed a major flaw in the defense of the Middle East against Communism; Britain and the U.S. did not see eye to eye on how to correct the defect...
From the nature of Russian strength and weakness, observers can get a fairly clear idea of the kind of war Russia would like to fight. The greatest defect is lack of mobility, especially at sea; Russia is still militarily landlocked and will probably have to stay that way unless it can add the industrial resources of Western Europe to its own. To a lesser degree, its armies are also tethered by the limitations of Russian industry. The U.S.S.R. could not support vast masses of infantry operating thousands of miles from home...