Word: childlessness
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...Hephzibah Menuhin Nicholas, 20; and Rancher Lindsay Nicholas, 24; a Leap-Year son; in Australia. Name: Kronrod George. Hephzibah is the ex-piano-playing sister of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin who married Lindsay Nicholas' sister Nola. Divorced recently was the third of Papa Moshe Menuhin's musical children, childless Yaltah (TIME, Feb. 19). Said Moshe then: "Two complete successes out of the marriages of three children is as much as any father can expect these days...
Scarcely a week goes by without the newsorgan advocating the favorite Himmler thesis of a free love that will promote the birth of more illegitimate "children of good blood." Last week, for instance, Das Schwarze Korps plugged for artificial insemination of childless women. Wrote Editor d'Alquen: "The problem is to find a helper toward procreation . . . who will place his hereditary substance at [their] disposal." The SS publication cribbed from the ancient Spartan Code of Lycurgus by recommending that impotent husbands choose their brothers to impregnate fertile brides...
...each child born within two years after the wedding; 2) State loans for agricultural equipment and livestock to French farmers on a ten-year basis, with progressive cancellation of part of the debt for each child born within the decade-fifth birth cancels all; 3) taxation of bachelors and childless couples to pay costs of birth boosting; 4) doubling of the legal penalties for abortion...
...months ago, as winter closed in, Ohio cities began to run out of relief funds, got no adequate new appropriations from the State, faced another of many crises. Cleveland's situation was more critical than most. From mid-November to mid-December, 16,000 single persons and childless couples in the city were denied any further food orders, left to forage. Orders for 40,000 others were cut to an average of 5½? a meal...
What Ohioans were wondering last week was why there was not more of a stink about the relief deadlock in Cleveland. Relief funds in Cleveland continued to dwindle, approximately 16,000 unemployed (ablebodied, unmarried, childless couples) were dropped from food lists, left to feed themselves, somehow. Cut to crusts were the food allowances of families with children...