Word: births
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Hull, 57, "a cold son-of-a-gun of a night" in Point Anne, Ont., when the doctor delivered his fifth child (of eleven) and announced: "The only difference between your son and you is that he doesn't eat so much." Bobby weighed 12 Ibs. at birth. His father, a 240-lb. cement worker, could lift the front end of a car, and he was also a fair country hockey player-which is what folks do to keep warm in the long Ontario winters...
Academic man is slowly suffocating under the sheer volume of technical books and specialized papers. Although Stanford Psychologist Nevitt Sanford would not go so far as Fahrenheit 451, in which a future civilization bans and burns the printed word entirely, he does advocate a new form of birth control-for books...
...this plan, all men losing their II-S deferments in June would be considered to be born in 1949 for draft purposes. These "constructive" 19-year-olds would be put in the pool with the actual 19-year-olds and selected out according to their months and date of birth-oldest first. * Percentage plan. Advocated by President Pusey among others, this plan would draft men according to the percentages of the seven age groups in the total eligible pool. If, for example, 22-year-olds constituted ten per cent of the pool, they would fill that percentage of each month...
Died. Mae Marsh, 72, early Hollywood heroine, who first starred in D. W. Griffith's 1915 classic, The Birth of a Nation; of a heart attack; in Hermosa Beach, Calif. Mae was only 16 when her auburn-haired beauty caught. Griffith's eye and he signed her to a contract at $3 a day. She moved a generation of moviegoers as Flora, the star-crossed little sister, in Birth of a Nation, went on to become Griffith's always tearful, often tragic leading lady in Intolerance, A Child of the Paris Streets and The White Rose...
...Birth of a Witch Hunt" gives a view of a public controversy which no other publication could provide, and indicates how effective Avatar could be if it devoted more space to matters other than its own persecution...