Word: defectiveness
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...public address system at Cranwell, training center for Britain's Royal Air Force, crackled with a special announcement. A defect, the voice said, had been found in the heel design of shoes worn by R.A.F. cadets. All officers were requested to turn in their shoes at the porter's lodge for a check by the makers. Eventually, as the pile of used footgear mounted, suspicions were aroused, questions asked, gossip exchanged. Could the perpetrator of the hoax have been the heir to the British throne, now in training at Cranwell? Said a Buckingham Palace spokesman...
...scholarship," Miss George's analysis points to Toomer, whose Cane was "written in a time more hopeful than our own," as providing the literary model of "the union of feminine fertility and masculine virility," in an atmosphere of vitality and mutual respect. The piece suffers only from an inherent defect in the short-survey form, that it attempts to cover a great deal of ground in some detail in a rather limited space. In a longer analysis, the inclusion of the treatment of a black female writer like Dorothy West. Jessie Fawcett or Zora Neal Hurston would be of value...
...victim, who was later identified as Chang Shi-jung, 31, had been serving as an agricultural adviser with the Chinese embassy in Algeria. He had reportedly informed the French embassy in Algiers that he wanted to defect, and the Chinese had learned of his plans. When French officials at Orly told the Chinese diplomats that Chang was too indisposed to travel, they became agitated and shouted "Bullies!" and "Fascists!" at the police. While the Pakistani plane took off without any of the Chinese aboard, both sides swiftly called up reinforcements. Fifty tough riot troopers of the C.R.S. (Compagnies...
...delicacy was probably prompted by a similar incident in The Netherlands five years ago. At that time, a Chinese delegation barricaded itself inside its house in The Hague for five months rather than submit to police questioning about the sudden death of a colleague who had apparently attempted to defect. During that time, the Dutch chargé d'affaires in Peking was forced to remain a prisoner in his legation...
...Ramsey and others, genetic surgery?repairing, replacing or suppressing a "sick" gene?could be profoundly moral. Depending on the defect, genetic surgery before or after birth could prevent abnormality, and also insure that it was not passed on. Moral Theologian Bernard Häring of Rome's Accademia Alfonsiana applauds basic remedial intervention as "corrective foresight...