Word: journalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, 16,000 Communist troops have been killed in battle (v. 4,000 South Vietnamese and 1,500 U.S. dead). Viet Cong defections have increased to an unprecedented rate of 80 a day. So low is the guerrillas' morale that Tien Phong, the South Vietnamese Reds' party journal, suggested recently (see THE WORLD) that Viet Cong leaders may not be able to afford to concentrate only on battleground activities and might better focus on the "political struggle movement...
...Melville's criterion, suggests Dr. Lois DeBakey in the New England Journal of Medicine, medicine must be full of "smatterers in science." Hospital records, casual conversations and technical reports "are loaded with shoptalk, incomprehensible to nonphysicians and often confusing even to physicians from other regions." A member of a notable family of surgeons-one brother is Houston Surgeon Michael DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28), another brother, Ernest, is also a surgeon-Dr. Lois, who has a Ph.D. in English and is an associate professor in scientific communication at Tulane University, is a surgeon of language. She advises medical writers...
Dead Crime. Is there no law against "civic indifference"? asks Lawyer George Goldberg in the American Bar Association Journal. There is indeed, he says. It is called "misprision of felony" (from the Old French mesprendre, to mistake). Misprision is a crime of omission-a failure to act. In 1907, the Vermont Supreme Court defined it as "a criminal neglect either to prevent a felony or to bring the offender to justice after its commission." Misprision thus differs from "accessory" offenses, such as assent or assistance in a felony. Because the two are easily confused, however, misprision is almost never prosecuted...
Christian Realism. Ironically, the journal that once condemned Hitler now criticizes the U.S. in its confrontation with Asian Communism. Niebuhr and Bennett say that a nation at times has a "moral obligation" to check power with power, but they advocate a negotiated end to the fighting in Viet Nam, a position that some critics feel is surprisingly akin to the antiwar view the magazine opposed in 1941. "We hope we are still Christian realists," Bennett writes in the anniversary issue, "and that we are as 'realistic' in emphasizing the limited relevance of American military power today...
...York City pediatrician. But Dr. Alvin N. Eden of Wyckoff Heights Hospital has been studying it, and he thinks that his colleagues ought to do the same. The wriggly microbe, Vibrio fetus, which is one of the most common causes of animal abortions, he reports in the Journal of Pediatrics, is probably responsible for a similar, and hitherto generally unrecognized, venereal disease...