Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strange to say, no reliable study of this extraordinary individual has ever been written in English. The defect is now remedied by Britain's Lord Kinross, a Turcophile (Within the Taurus) who has known some of Atatürk's principal associates for many years. In this acute and readable biography, Kinross sometimes oversimplifies the period but never underplays the complex and astonishing nature of the beast he is examining...
Like many other conservatives, Rusher resorts to the numbers game to explain away the Goldwater debacle of 1964. To the charge that most of the G.O.P. total consisted of party votes rather than Goldwater votes, Rusher answered, "Given all the pressures to defect, I think the 27 million had an unusually high proportion of the gold as opposed to the dross, contrary to Hugh Scott." He smiled, pleased with the pun, and continued, "They would have sunk their hands on a barrel of rattlesnakes to pull the Goldwater lever...
...recommendation to Moscow was typically blunt: "Robertson is 25, the son of a worker. His standard of political education is low, but studying in Moscow should remedy this defect. He is not a Party member but he should be ready to join in a year...
...Francisco speech, James L. Robertson, one of the Federal Reserve's seven governors, declared that today's "tangle of overlapping responsibilities, conflicting philosophies and procedural cross-purposes cannot be tolerated much longer." Merely "knocking heads together" will not solve the problem, said Robertson. "The defect is in the structure...
After 20 shots of cognac, Thompson "decided to hell with it." He walked into East Berlin wearing civilian clothes; no one checked his pass. He contacted Communist intelligence officers, said he wanted to defect. Three men questioned him for six hours in the sun porch of a private house overlooking a lake. Thompson was pretty drunk; the Soviets told him they didn't think he would be a good spy and sent him back...