Word: defenselessness
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Daphne du Maurier, 46, is one of the slickest pros now producing bestseller belles-lettres. She dips her pen into the inkpot of romance, melodrama or suspense and aims it like a dagger at the heart of the defenseless reader, who is usually quite willing to hold still...
...world of 1954 is di-polar, with two opposing super states. Smaller powers can no longer afford to stand alone, for they are comparatively defenseless. Nor can they contribute to a balance of power or serve as a "third force." Instead, they must seek safety in numbers. The results of this drive for security are regional organizations such as NATO and the Organization of American States. But no such arrangement exists in Asia...
...Civil Aeronautics Board examiner lifted the private-pilot's license of Radio-TV's Arthur Godfrey for six months. The examiner found that Godfrey, flying "in a careless and reckless manner," deliberately buzzed the defenseless control tower at New Jersey's Teterboro Airport last January...
...envisage the bomber fleets taking off at the drop of a hat to slaughter millions of defenseless people," said Slessor. "In a situation like, say, the Czech crisis of 1938, the first step would be a clear warning in secret that any attempt at a solution by force would bring the guarantee into operation. If that did not work . . . the people concerned should be told clearly-by radio and pamphlets dropped from the air-what will happen if their government uses force, and warned to evacuate a specified list of cities . . . At the same time, we should move the bomber...
Died. Vice Admiral Gordon Campbell, 67, one of Britain's top naval heroes in World War I, winner of the Victoria Cross after commanding one of the Royal Navy's top-secret "Q" ships (armed U-boat hunters disguised as defenseless freighters); of a heart ailment; near London...