Word: defectiveness
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...Only to defect to Read China in July...
...tour of museums in East Germany, but is persuaded at the last minute to combine personal pleasure with CIA business. Once across the border, the scientist swiftly discovers that the game of espionage can be played with mirrors. Sent to make contact with a Communist physicist who wants to defect, the hero instead makes contact with a Communist physicist (Hardy Kruger) who wants him to defect...
...first year under the new system, one defect became obvious. The same people who assigned mainstage slots were competing for them. Consequently any degree of critical detachment was impossible...
...wanted you to know that my doctors have recommended that I undergo surgery to repair a defect at the site of the incision made during the gall bladder operation a year ago," said Johnson. His physicians suggested that the operation, along with another to remove a 3-mm. polyp from his throat (see MEDICINE), should take place in 15 to 18 days. In the meantime, he was ordered to begin "a reduced schedule of activity" at once, and to take off some weight (currently about 215 Ibs.). For that reason, he said, he was leaving the following day for Texas...
...abdominal surgery is not of an emergency nature doctors said. It will repair a defect in the incision made last year during Johnson's gall bladder operation...