Word: unfitness
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...week's end Truman added Jack Kennedy to his unfit list, said, "The Republican newspapers" want to nominate Kennedy or Stevenson, "but our party is going to nominate someone who can win." Other Truman political pronouncements: "This draft business is hooey. There never was a man drafted for President in the history of the country. A draft is created by the fellow who wants it and is willing to fight for it." On primaries: "I hope that people have had a bellyfull of these primaries. They are outrageously expensive and exhausting...
...General Ralph W. Zwicker, 57, one of those people fated to remain famous for a peripheral incident in life (he successfully defied Joe McCarthy's badgering question: "Who promoted Peress?"), will soon retire after 33 years in the uniform McCarthy said (quite wrongly, of course) that he was "unfit to wear." Since the McCarthy demagoguery, Zwicker won a second star, served as commander of the 1st Cavalry Division in the Far East, is now commander of the Ohio-based XX Army Corps...
...postponed while a London jury considered a plea the like of which had never before been heard in an English court of law (TIME, Sept. 21). The plea: in "the very severe fright" caused by the violence of his arrest, Podola had lost his memory, and so was unfit to plead to the charge of shooting a London cop. Last week, after a procession of experts had offered conflicting medical opinion on whether Podola was, in fact, suffering from "hysterical amnesia," the jury finally decided that he was fit to stand trial...
...delinquents as a group were found to differ markedly from the non-delinquents in five major ways: socioculturally, temperamentally, in attitude, psychologically, and physically. Socioculturally, the offenders had been reared in homes of little understanding, affection, stability, or moral fiber by parents usually unfit to be effective guides or protectors. Temperamentally, the delinquents were more "restlessly energetic, impulsive, extroverted, aggressive, destructive, and often sadistic." In attitude, they were far more hostile than the non-offenders, far more "definant, resentful, suspicious, stubborn, socially assertive, adventurous, unconventional, and non-submissive to authority...
...Trembling & Twitching." Thereupon the case turned into a pre-trial jury hearing to decide whether Podola had actually lost his memory and so was unfit to plead guilty or not guilty of murder. Detective Albert Chambers, 6 ft. and 230 lbs., testified that to arrest Podola, he "charged [the door] with all my strength," and crashed Podola to the floor, falling "full length on top of him." When Podola recovered consciousness, said Chambers, he had ''a peculiar trembling and shaking and twitching" in his whole body...