Word: suspectible
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...means has all opposition disappeared. Sex education is still suspect in many parts of the country, and often severely limited. Many teachers are still afraid of getting into trouble with trustees or families. Some schools require the parents' written consent before children may attend the classes or lectures. But school systems with a diversity of religious groupings are launching experimental programs. New York City's begins next September, Chicago's started last winter, and 400-odd others are under way. This year, for the first time, the Federal Government is awarding two grants specifically in the field...
...that recalls themselves are any thing new. For years, Detroit has been calling back cars to correct belatedly discovered flaws. The auto companies have usually gone about that part of their business by confidentially instructing dealers to get in touch with the owners of suspect cars. Then came last September's federal requirement that Washington be notified of all call-backs -and National Traffic Safety Bureau Administrator William Haddon Jr. was soon making all the details public...
...Itek Corporation, which specializes in sophisticated photographic equipment and photographic-analysis processes, to find out what Nix's camera really captured. Employing advanced methods that were not available to the Warren Commission, Itek concluded in a 55-page report that 1) no one could be discerned on the suspect area of the knoll, 2) the purported figure of a rifleman was actually a tree's shadow, 3) the raised object was probably a vehicle in a parking lot behind the knoll, and 4) because of abutments and other obstructions, it would have been virtually impossible to sharpshoot from...
...suspect, these two strategies would fail, then at least there would be an organization in being that could be equipped to run a campaign on a national level. It is vitally important to envision such a proposed peace-and-civil-rights bloc as flexible and able to swing its support in different directions depending on where it might do the most good. Options are kept open not by waiting to organize but by waiting to commit our resources until other, more moderate, strategies are tried...
...just watching or listening. What engages them is a matter for the social psychologist. NBC Vice President Paul Klein suggests that "people are always lonely at night. Forty or fifty percent of the people have bad sex partners or none at all." Klein's statistics may be suspect, but after all, he is NBC's man in charge of audience measurement. Sylvester L. Weaver Jr., onetime NBC president and instigator of the Tonight, Today and Monitor shows, believes that the new interest in broadcast conversation is a sign of a higher level of education in the country. Bill...