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...Students for Eisenhower" last night unanimously approved Korn's proposal for a poll in the near future and another one in the early fall to defect changes in undergraduate opinion after the two political conventions...
...affair, like the Hiss case, raised the momentous question: What could bring intelligent and apparently devoted servants of the state to defect to the enemy...
Conversely, the same facts indicate that it is unrealistic to talk of breeding humans resistant to sunburn, polio, smallpox, or any non-hereditary defects except in inconsequential numbers, Ingalls said. Although a tendency toward or immunity to certain defects is inherited, the genesis of the defect itself is open to question, he said...
...from atherosclerosis. (Other researchers are not sure that he is right. Three laboratories-at Harvard, the University of Pittsburgh and the Cleveland Clinic-have been running experiments to prove or disprove the Gofman thesis.) Still to be explored is the possibility that a more fundamental mechanism is involved: a defect in body chemistry-the way in which an individual metabolizes either fats or proteins...
...hitter has the power to pole one out of the park. The big batters are almost always hitting away; their strength is seldom wasted in sacrifices. Given a well-tagged ball, anyone on the team will gamble and go for extra bases. If Smokey Alston worries about any single defect, it is Dodger nonchalance. His team won the pennant too soon, coasted into autumn carelessly dulling the fine edge that made them champions. Then, there is always that oldtime habit of losing to the Yanks in the series...