Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the protests of religious conservatives, Nehru had the votes, and the bill passed. One other important clause in the act was designed to stop India's ancient custom of child marriages. It fixes new legal marrying ages: boys 18, girls...
...used could be devised, but they might delay vaccination programs. Second (and here Ike showed that he had been briefed in a highly technical field), scientists have suspected "a reaction or a development that you might call the provocative effect of this vaccine. You or I, or a little child . . . might have latent polio germs in his system . . . Now the actual puncture of the skin . . . might cause some trouble." This was true, but it had been no less true during last year's field trials, when no such ill effects had been noted. This year's paralytic polio...
Thursday. The Washington Post wasp-ishly called Ike's press conference "a miracle of confusion" (but far more confusion was to come). The first child in the Southeast to die of polio after receiving Salk vaccine was Eugene Allen Davis Jr., 2½, of New Orleans, grandson of famed Cancer Surgeon Alton Ochsner. But New York City parents showed their continuing confidence in the vaccine: fewer than 1% withdrew permission for their children to be inoculated...
...There was a hard-to-down suspicion that more live virus particles than a child can tolerate had slipped through in some of this year's vaccine...
...Sensitive. The new courses, known as the Seabury Series,* are available to all parishes at a price of approximately $2 a child, with books, pamphlets and teachers' manuals for grades 1, 4 and 7. About 2,000 parishes have already sent in pre-publication orders. Planning for the series got under way nine years ago when the Episcopal Church decided that the Sunday-school curriculum in too many parishes was little better than a pious device for providing some peace and quiet around the house on Sunday morning. After the problem was turned over to the church...