Word: defective
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...model abortion code. It would legalize abortions performed in licensed hospitals if at least two physicians agree that there is substantial risk of grave damage to the mother's physical or mental health, or of the child's being born with a grave physical or mental defect, or when the pregnancy results from rape or incest. This would legalize abortions in the German-measles cases. Bills to amend the law along these lines were introduced, but failed, in New York and California...
...Victor O. Wehle directed acquittal verdicts for both U.S. Rubber and the local Corvair dealer, thus leaving G.M. the sole defendant. He instructed the jurors to hold the company up to a standard of strict liability-meaning that G.M. would be held responsible if the car had any inherent defect. After deliberating for 13 hours, the Clearwater jurors unanimously acquitted...
Died. Wendell Johnson, 59, longtime (since 1931) University of Iowa speech pathologist, himself a onetime tongue-tied stutterer, who could barely get his name out when he registered at Iowa's pioneer speech clinic in 1926, conquered his defect and went on to write a famed series of studies indicating that children stammer most often because of "conscientious but misunderstanding listeners, usually mothers," trying overly hard to cure what are only natural defects in early speech; of arteriosclerosis; in Iowa City...
...court ruled that injured consumers need not claim a theoretical "implied warranty" but may rely simply on "strict liability in tort." Said the court: "A manufacturer is strictly liable in tort when an article he places on the market, knowing that it is to be used without inspection for defects, proves to have a defect that causes injury to a human being...
Letters of Support. Mclntire optimistically claims that "anywhere from one-third to one-half of the United Presbyterian members" will defect from the church if the Confession is approved. That hardly seems likely, but there is some evidence for the charge by Executive Editor Nelson Bell of the conservative Protestant biweekly Christianity Today that "dissent will reach into almost every presbytery." Already, members of churches in Pittsburgh, Peoria and San Jose, Calif., have gone on record as opposing the Confession in its present form. In Seattle, the Rev. David Brittain of Foster-Tukwila Presbyterian Church fears that one-fourth...