Word: defectiveness
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Hard Sell. What ails the Republicans, said Eisenhower, is no lack of a solid philosophy but a weakness in tactics. "Our story, good though it is, has not been getting across. The conclusion would seem to be that our marketing system is not good enough; a defect that must be quickly eliminated...
...monologues into an invisible phone, and it is no surprise that the show's best number is one in which Berman writhes about on a phone (visible), plotting revenge on Tilly Siegal. Most of the time Alfie and Tilly manage to obscure Affair's most serious defect, which is that it works so terribly hard to provide a merely adequate evening's entertainment. One innovation is pleasing: the choruses depart from the epicene standard of Broadway musicals; the members, in fact, look a great deal like people...
Less common than come-and-go infectious diseases, but far more insidious and likely to cause lifelong handicaps, are the defects humans are born with. The majority of congenital defects, it is currently believed, come when something goes wrong in the womb-typically, cataracts in a child resulting from the fact that the mother had German measles (TIME, Aug. 1, 1960). The rest are hereditary, dating from the instant that a sperm and an ovum, one or both defective, join to make a defective cell. In the subdividing process that starts at once, every newly created cell carries...
While PKU is rare (once in 25,000 births) and galactosemia is probably even rarer, one in every 16 U.S. infants is born with some defect, many of which, untreated, may be handicapping or fatal, said O'Connor. And the scientists are closing in on other disorders suspected of being transmitted by genes, the giant molecules of heredity: diabetes, gout, some forms of mongolism, cretinism, cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy, the inability to make protective antibodies against bacteria, and many other disorders of the blood, besides obvious physical defects...
...probably will not be around to defend the Davis Cup next year: at week's end Fraser was already talking about retiring: Emerson and Laver insisted they had no immediate plans to turn pro. But these days, the top amateurs, both in the U.S. and Australia, almost always defect to the pros. But Australia plans for such losses. Ever since 1950, the ever-changing Aussie roster has almost always been good enough to lick the rest of the world. The teams...