Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...night in question, nurses and midwives had told each of the mothers the sex of her baby, but because each had had a hard time at the birth, neither mother saw her child naked until she was ready to take it home. By then a weird Gilbert and Sullivan baby switch had apparently taken place. When Mme. Piesset, whose only daughter had died only three years before, found that the boy baby she had called Guy was in reality a girl, she thought it an act of providence, and pursued the matter no further. Jeanne Derock, on the other hand...
Last week, as the result of nearly seven years of slow and painful litigation pursued by Mme. Derock with the aid of sympathetic lawyers and newsmen, a French court ordered the child known as Viviane Piesset taken from her own pleasant home and delivered to the home of the Derocks. Why? After pondering the results of blood tests and other evidence, the court had decided "with the greatest certainty" that Viviane was in reality Louise, a child born out of wedlock to Mme. Derock within one hour of the birth of a legitimate son to Mme. Piesset in the same...
...days last week, little Mary de Caussin, 6, was ordered by her parents to stay in the family's yard in Detroit's Ecorse suburb. She was being punished for wandering away from home a few days before. Then, in midweek, her mother allowed the child her customary freedom. Mary skipped down the block to play with her friends. At dinnertime Mary's mother was frantic: Mary had disappeared...
...French Ford came down the boulevard bearing four Moslems: two men, a woman and a child. The young Europeans invited the woman and child out. Then they dragged out the two men, beat them to death, and threw the bodies over the sea wall to the rocks 40 feet below. Then they lifted the Ford and dropped it over the cliff after them. Police, stoically watching this performance, brushed aside a protest by foreign newsmen that they stop the slaughter, said: "We haven't received orders." A French paratroop major who tried to intervene was slapped in the face...
...space. Inside are three bedrooms, a living room, family room, dining space, kitchen and two baths, with many fixtures molded into the walls and electronic aids galore ranging from a TV-type camera to see who is at the front door to pushbuttons to adjust the lavatory to a child's height. Costing $1,000,000 to plan and build, the house so far is a showcase, the company said, and no plans have yet been made to put it in production. But it estimates the house could be mass-produced for as little...