Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the testimony broadcast on the Iraq radio and TV last week, Aref emerged as a conceited, emotional type, whom Nasser himself reportedly characterized as "a child." Nevertheless, there was no proof that he plotted against the state and, since Kassem himself refused to testify, there was also nothing but hearsay to contradict Aref's claim that when he drew a pistol in Kassem's presence last October he had only done so in a hysterical attempt to kill himself. Several leaders, including Brigadier Naji Talib, a top figure in the shadowy "free officers' group" that plotted...
...last time heads were counted, the figures showed that seven of every ten Jamaicans were born out of wedlock. But who cares? Each May, during Baby & Child Week, every child, legitimate or illegitimate, is welcome to compete in the baby beauty contest; the only distinction is that winners whose parents are married get a bonus. Harking back to African tradition, many women in Jamaica cheerfully prove themselves by producing a healthy child before expecting island males to consider them seriously as wives. Yet even then, Jamaican men tend to vanish magically when marriage is mentioned...
...only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with her to break the cycle of evil for the sake of her two children, and with the reasoning of utter despair kills the younger child to save a home for the elder...
Born. To Stanley Frank Musial, 38, St. Louis Cardinal outfielder-first baseman, who has parlayed a coil-spring batting stance, quick wrists and buzzard-sharp eyes into seven National League batting titles and a roster of alltime records, and Lillian Labash Musial, 38: their third daughter, fourth child; in St. Louis. Name: Jean. Weight...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). An adaptation of Michel del Castillo's poignant 1958 novel Child of Our Time (TIME, Oct. 20), about a rootless boy amid the death shadows of war-haunted Europe...