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...killing civilians. In a hospital in the Mekong Delta, Rusk came across a five-year-old girl who had lost both legs at the knees. The Viet Cong raided her village, and when they discovered that all the men had fled, flung grenades into houses where the women and chil dren were hiding. At another hospital, Rusk witnessed the arrival of 17 civilians who had been badly mauled when their bus ran over a Viet Cong land mine-one of the principal causes of war injuries. A six-year-old child died before Rusk's eyes...
...attending school with whites. Though that is a marked improvement over last year's 6% figure, the rates remain appallingly low in sev eral Deep South states. A dozen years after the U.S. Supreme Court urged "all deliberate speed" in school integration, only one of every 28 Negro chil dren attends classes with whites in Louisiana, one of 31 in Mississippi, one of 42 in Alabama...
...fraudulence is fascinating" say the publishers, and it is even more fascinating than they admit. On the surface, this novel by the well-praised author of The Man Who Loved Chil dren (TIME, April 2, 1965) is a finely if lushly written story about Nellie Cotter, a left-wing journalist and later a raffish London bohemian. Nellie is the most forceful character in the Cotter family, whose life offers a sad insight into the awful milieu of the British working class in the industrial landscape of the Tyneside. A feast for the Cotters is one chicken in the pot, brought...
...Massachusetts, Lucy's daughter and only child, Mrs. Robert W. Knowles, revealed that her mother and father, Socialite Winthrop Rutherfurd, were wed in 1920 in a simple Roman Catholic ceremony in a private home, the unusual location being permitted because one of Widower Rutherfurd's five chil dren by his previous marriage had recently died. Lucy, her daughter said, was a devout Catholic, a fact that, together with F.D.R.'s political ambitions, is said to have kept her and F.D.R. from marrying. After Lucy's marriage, Mrs. Knowles added, she and F.D.R. "saw each other perhaps...
...performed only after the mother had died. The first known caesarean on a living woman was performed about 1500 by one Jacob Nufer, an accomplished Dutch sow-gelder, who used a razor for surgery on his wife. She not only survived, but went on to bear him six more chil dren, all by normal births...