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Pica, the investigators found, occurs in more than half the children aged four to six in the most deprived, lowest-income bracket. More surprisingly, it occurs in almost one-third of children in middle-and upper-income homes. It does not result from lack of food, or of any particular kind of food. It is, says Psychiatrist Lourie, a signal from the child that there is something wrong with his mothering; either he is not getting enough of it or is getting the wrong kind...
...young man who had licked BMEWS was a natural to tackle the moon. But at RCA, Holmes was making about $50,000 a year, plus the liberal fringe benefits (expense account,, stock options) with which successful corporations beguile high-bracket help. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration could offer him full command of all U.S. manned space flight, including Jack Kennedy's promised voyage to the moon−and a salary deeply cut to $21,000 a year...
Short (5 ft. 8 in.) and bowlegged. Rod Laver is not in the same bracket with Don Budge. The son of a Queensland sheepherder, he is temperamental, easily thrown off stride by the bad breaks of a match. He lacks the cannonlike power of a Hoad or the dexterity of a Rosewall. Instead, he relies on craftiness and a unique ability to reset his wrist in mid-stroke-just before contact with the ball -that permits him to hit the ball flat, give it top spin, or impart a low-bouncing underspin. At Wimbledon last week, everything worked...
...Chamber of Commerce called for an immediate tax cut, even if it meant a budget deficit in the coming year-which it certainly would. Said Chamber President H. Ladd Plumley: "It's worth the cost." Less surprisingly, the Chamber wanted the cuts concentrated on corporations and upper-bracket individuals, because it believes that encouraging investment in plant and equipment is more important to economic growth right now than spurring consumer spending. Estimated cost of the Chamber cut: $7 billion to $10 billion...
Ignoring the gibes of colleagues. Geneticist Glen McBride of Australia's University of Queensland perched for two years on the fences of pigpens. By listening to the oinks and grunts of teen-age swine (8 to 16-week age bracket), he hoped to fathom their social order, to learn how to make them more comfortable and faster growing. He failed, mostly because the young swine were made into hams and bacon before he got to know them well...