Word: defectiveness
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...Mark E. Silverman and Dr. J. Willis Hurst of Atlanta's Emory University School of Medicine presented their latest hand-and-heart findings to the American College of Cardiology last week. Although the cause and nature of a heart defect or disorder are often obscure, the doctors suggested that these may become apparent to "the cardiovascular sleuth who lingers a moment longer at the radial (wrist) pulse to inspect the hand closely...
After German setbacks in early 1943, Hitler offered Stalin a deal to swap Yakov, who had resisted Nazi blandishments to defect to the German cause, for the German field marshal who surrendered at Stalingrad. Stalin turned down the proposal, replying: "You have in your hands not only my son Yakov but millions of my sons. Either you free them all or my son will share their fate." According to his Russian cellmate, it was the news that his father had refused to ransom him that drove Yakov to despair and his suicidal attempt to escape...
...Family. By now, 80 victims of the Lesch-Nyhan syndrome have been identified. Very few have survived beyond puberty; most are in institutions. All are boys, indicating that the enzyme defect is transmitted, like hemophilia, through the mother on an X chromosome, although she appears unaffected. Researchers at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases checked to see whether the same enzyme deficiency could explain typical adult gout. It does in only a few cases, they reported last week. In one family, two gout victims have only about 1% of the normal PRT; in another family, it is about...
Viet Cong ideologists rank Binh Van (subverting enemy troops) as one prong of a triple-lined war effort, accompanied by political and military action. "Direct propaganda at U.S. troops, especially draftees and colored soldiers," ordered a captured Viet Cong directive. But while Negroes are promised special treatment if they defect, other Viet Cong slander them, terrorizing villagers with tales of cannibalism by Negroes...
...watchers are familiar with the sight of U.S. and South Vietnamese troops; even shots of North Vietnamese militiamen in Hanoi are hardly a novelty. Only the Viet Cong have remained largely invisible. But that defect will be remedied next month when CBS runs a film made by French Freelancer Roger Pic, 47. Already broadcast in France, the 25-minute documentary gives a glimpse of Viet Cong life at a clandestine camp operating under the shadow of U.S. military might only 60 miles from Saigon...