Word: suspect
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether or not the robbers were mere French second-story men or furtive Binh-Xuyen agents bent on some dark political mission, no one could say, and General Le Van Vien declined to guess. "I don't suspect anyone," he told the bewildered police blandly. "I didn't think there was anyone who disliked...
...tumult, Mrs. St. Clair's long lost brother from Kansas shows up with his wife and lots of socially unaceptable notions. Drama begins when the St. Clair diamonds disappear, and everybody from Peter, to poor but proud, to the butler with the shady record is suspect. In the long run, love, sex, liquor, and all the virtues triumph...
...status of space flight, formerly made suspect by visionaries and fiction writers, was not defined in public until the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corp. held its Astronautics Symposium at San Diego (TIME, March 4). Planned as a small confab of space-minded missile men, the conference ballooned into a crammed mass meeting of engineers and scientists representing airplane, electronic and instrument companies as well as universities and all three armed services. A few years ago most of these hardheaded characters would not have attended a space-flight meeting except incognito. Now they are eager...
None of this proves, say the reporting scientists, that the earth's present "burden" of strontium 90 is an immediate peril, but neither does it prove the contrary. They suspect that the average human being contains about eight times more strontium 90. than was reported in the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 18), and they note that the amount is increasing, and may be increasing rapidly. They insist that no one knows how much is needed to damage health...
...Arcularis is still gripping throughout, and often beautiful. It is also extremely frightening. Despite its imbalance it is excellent reading, and should make good theatre. If Aiken does not give all we suspect he feels, he gives us at least a truly thoughtful tale...