Word: caesarean
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...artillery and, since 1967, tyrant of Athens, is no latter-day Caesar. But last week, apparently feeling secure after obtaining a 78.4% majority in an unopposed "election" for an eight-year term as President of his recently proclaimed Greek republic, Papadopoulos, 54, surprised his critics with an uncharacteristic Caesarean gesture. He declared a sweeping amnesty and freed an estimated 330 political prisoners-all those known to be in custody, including the man who had narrowly missed assassinating Papadopoulos himself...
...baby has a name, but Carlo Ponti and Sophia Loren were so sure that their second child would be a girl that the only name they had picked was Sophia Penelope-which would hardly do for a 7-lb. 4-oz. bambino. While the actress convalesced from the caesarean, the Pontis brooded over more manly names for a day or so and finally chose Edoardo Gianmaria Leone. It comes from nowhere and no one in particular, says Ponti. "We just thought it was a nice name...
...lung directly if it is mature enough to come out and breathe," says Gluck. If the lung answers yes, the baby can be delivered immediately by induced labor or caesarean section. If the answer is no, labor can often be delayed until the lung is mature enough to function. Performed on more than 400 women in the past two years, the Gluck test has thus far proved 100% accurate...
Ethiopia paid a high price for Il Duce's Caesarean pretensions. By the time British troops crushed the Italian invaders in 1941, 760,000 Ethiopians had been killed. Even so, Selassie ordered his people to treat the defeated Italians with "a sense of honor and a human heart...