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...humanly happier, if ethically problematic, event occurred in England. The first baby ever conceived outside the human body was born 8% months after doctors there united sperm and egg in a laboratory petri dish and then implanted the embryo in the mother's womb...
...thick accent of Szechwan, a province of central China known for its spicy cuisine, gentle climate and soaring, mountainous scenery. Little is known of Teng's early life or, for that matter, of his private life today. He is believed to be the son of a landlord. He was born in 1904 in Hsieh-hsing, a village near China's wartime capital of Chungking. His given name was Kan Tse-kao, which he changed to Teng Hsiao-p'ing (an underground alias that means Little Peace) when he joined the Communist Party...
...vacant seats in both the National Assembly and Legislative Council scheduled for December 23. Up to that point, the campaign had been the most open in the island's history, with opposition candidates freely criticizing the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) government. With unwitting prescience, one independent office seeker, mainland-born Chen Ku-ying, had planned to cap his campaign by erecting a billboard in Taipei that contained the simple inscription: WHERE ARE WE GOING...
This fierce football domain is Bear Bryant's briar patch. He was born and raised in it, coming out of Moro Bottom, Ark., with one good pair of shoes to play for the University of Alabama in the mid-'30s. He was the other end on the team that beat Stanford in the 1935 Rose Bowl, doing the blocking while All-America Don Hutson set records for pass catching. He wanted to coach, naturally, and worked his way up to Maryland and then gave Kentucky its only Southeastern Conference title-and an N.C.A.A. probation for recruiting violations...
...BORN. To John William Carter, 31, lawyer, grain merchant and eldest son of President Carter, and Judy Langford Carter, 28: their second child, a daughter, and the President's first granddaughter, third grandchild; in Atlanta. Name: Sarah Rosemary Carter...