Word: suspects
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...Spain's José Maria Gironella in The Cypresses Believe in God, which massively documented the forces that carried Spain toward civil war (TIME, April 18). Lewis shows that in their hearts both sides have become tired of the stubbornly continuing conflict. The revolutionary has begun to suspect the motives of the revolution, the chief of police is sick of police power. In the end, Author Lewis seems to echo the policeman's plea: "Let's hear no more about Reds or Falangists either. Haven't we as a people the greatness of heart to admit...
...absorb solar energy during the day. At night they give off this energy as yellow sodium light. Scientists do not know how high the "sodium layer" is. Nor do they know how the sodium got into the top of the atmosphere. Some think it came from outer space; others suspect that it originated as fine particles of sea salt that were carried upward...
Many people suspect that scientists, riding high in the modern world, are uninterested in man's spiritual qualities, which cannot be subjected to test tube and microscopic analysis. One scientist who is deeply interested in analysis of the spirit is Biologist Edmund W. Sinnott, dean of Yale's Graduate School. In his new book, The Biology of the Spirit (Viking; $3.50), Professor Sinnott tries to find some common foundation for the spiritual feelings of man and the facts about material life that have been discovered by biologists...
...centuries to prevent the use of torture in inquisitorial proceedings. The current controversy over refusal to answer appears to revolve around the inferences to be drawn from such refusal. Obviously, an inference of possible guilt is reasonably drawn from such a refusal. One who refuses to answer is a "suspect," but he is not a "convict" subject to the full sanctions of the criminal law, because the issue as to guilt is not proved ... by silence alone. Our problem with Fifth Amendment invokers is: What should society do with "suspects"? Suspects should not hold positions of trust...
...sale of gasoline, to stop air contamination. But scientists are not sure just how the air is contaminated. While greyed-out Los Angeles was doing battle, a Minneapolis meeting of smog fighters from all over the U.S. suggested that smog irritation may not be caused by the obviously suspect fumes from exhaust pipes and smoke stacks. The theory: combustion in power plants and all types of engines throws hundreds of tons of nitrogen oxides into the air, along with hydrocarbon compounds. The oxides absorb energy from sunlight, which enables them to turn hydrocarbon compounds into what chemists call "free radicals...