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Married. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, 40, famed German lieder singer; and Ruth Leuwerik, 39, German film star; both for the second time (his first, Cellist Irmgard Poppen, died in childbirth in 1963); in Zollikon, Switzerland...
...getting richer, the proletarians are being lulled into impotence by their proliferating cars, "which they can pay for but cannot afford." What's more, declared Hochhuth, Erhard was to blame for the low state of German education and science, and for the high rate of deaths in childbirth...
Benefit & Bane. Even more dramatic are the contributions fungi have made to science and medicine. Yeasts' high content of vitamins makes them effective against beriberi and pellagra. Ergot, derived from fungus-infected grain, speeds labor in childbirth, helps control bleeding. A common red bread mold has vastly facilitated research on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), which governs heredity and holds the secret of life...
...cinema heel (The Hustler, Hud), and Joanne Woodward, 35, Georgia-bred actress, his frequent costar, who won an Oscar in 1957 for her smoldering performance in The Three Faces of Eve: their third child, third daughter (he has one son, two other daughters by a previous marriage); by natural childbirth, which left mother able to enjoy two peanut-butter sandwiches half an hour after delivery; in Manhattan...
Secret of Success. The absence of milk during the first few days after childbirth may be due to nothing more than fear, worry, tension. "The arrival of a mother-in-law can dry up milk within hours. Physical strain, especially lack of sleep, is equally harmful," says Dr. Grossman in GP. Yet "the greatest enemies of naps are the mother's guilty awareness of unwashed floors and dirty dishes and her friends who want to see the new baby." The secret of successful nursing is simply to nurse the baby often; the process stimulates the breasts to produce more...