Word: protectable
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Some legal experts believe the most likely outcome is that the inquest will be canceled-leaving Dinis the option of calling a grand jury-or that it will be held in secret to protect the rights of Kennedy and the other witnesses. In either case, the public, which is presumably a court to which every politician must appeal, would be denied an open and formal explanation. Kennedy might have gone ahead with the Edgartown inquest, risking rumors on the record in order to account for his conduct clearly once and for all. Now he has for a time formalized...
...retired professor asked about Roman metal workers who wore face masks made from goats' bladders to protect themselves from dust and lead fumes (Roman Naturalist Pliny was the source). Three readers were baffled by the word glitch in one of our moon stories (it is a modernized term for World War II's famed gremlin); another was having trouble finding the word aelurophile (it is a variant of ailurophile, meaning lover of cats). Ofttimes the department is called upon to settle arguments-last year two college roommates quibbled about who makes more money, pro footballers or auto racers...
...advantages of an inquest is that a judge presides over it; the prosecutor alone conducts a grand jury. The secrecy of a grand jury, however, might better protect the interests of those called to testify in a case that, like Kennedy's, attracts wide public interest. Judge Boyle has decided to open the inquest to newsmen, which is his choice under Massachusetts...
...LIFE, shows just how difficult it is to obtain a conviction in such cases. It also reminds the reader, who is left sharing Mosley's indignation, of the high price that must sometimes be paid for a cherished body of trial rules that have been set to protect the innocent...
Small White Cells. Blaiberg's doctors were at once faced with the problem of controlling the immune mechanism by which the body seeks to reject any invading foreign substance, especially protein. Nature devised this complex reaction largely to protect the higher animals against parasitism and infection by such lowly microbes as bacteria and viruses. But the defense works equally well against tissues from higher animals, including those from any other man (except an identical twin...