Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Galloping about Manhattan on an early-morning constitutional, Visitor Harry S. Truman, 72, told trailing newshounds why he hopes daughter Margaret, expecting a child in July, will name no boys after him: "It would be a handicap all his life. I have a nephew named after me-a sergeant in World War II*-and this name almost deviled him to death. The worst thing in the world is to have a President in the family...
...when the community was flourishing; he was, like the covenanters, an ascetic, living on locusts and wild honey, and proclaiming, like the Essenes, Isaiah's words about making "straight in the desert a highway for our God." It has been suggested that John had been adopted as a child and raised by the Essenes, as was their custom. "They neglect wedlock," writes Josephus, "but choose out other persons' children, while they are pliable . . . and form them according to their own manners...
...some doctors over what defects are hereditary, Dr. Kemp lists an amazing variety of conditions on which "genetic counseling"-at least some of it leading to sterilization-has been given. Among them are many, such as harelip, clubfoot and similar malformations, which may be congenital (in that a child has them at birth) but which are not, so far as is known, the result of defective genes, and therefore are not predetermined at conception. They are caused by events, still unknown, occurring during life in the womb, and some of them can be repaired by surgery. Many have no proved...
Born. To Roberta Peters, 26, shapely. Manhattan-born Metropolitan Opera soprano, and Bertram Fields, 36, hotel owner: a son, their first child; in Manhattan. Name: Paul Adam. Weight...
Born. To Irmgard Seefried, 36, bouncy leading soprano of the Vienna State Opera, who has made four U.S. tours, stirred Metropolitan Opera audiences as Susanna in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in 1953. and Wolfgang Schneiderhan. 38, violin virtuoso: their second daughter, second child; in Vienna. Name: Monika. Weight...