Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Modest as it was, his life was probably beyond dreams he might have entertained as a boy in his native Chihuahua, where his parents and their ten children earned a bare subsistence with a vegetable and fruit stand in the market. As any good script would have it, Primitivo, 23, along with his younger brother Alfredo, began a naturalization course at night at Kansas City's Westport High School, the first step to ward his cherished goal of becoming a U.S. citizen. If Primitivo Garcia had been like the U.S. citizens who were around Westport one cold night last...
...with "extended families" -people who live with, or at least close to, parents, brothers and sisters and other relatives. "We also like to see applicants demonstrate stubbornness, independence and personal confidence in the face of possible dissent over what they are doing," says Raymond Mondloh, casework director of the Children's Home Society in St. Paul...
...mine," whispered Audrey Oliver, proudly cuddling the six-month-old infant in her arms. "I'm going to call her Candy." The scene was hardly surprising, since it took place in the reception room of the Children's Bureau in Indianapolis. What made it unusual was that the abandoned child was being adopted by a woman who, at 29, was and is unmarried...
...child is older or is of racially mixed parentage-situations in which adoptive couples are often impossible to come by. Explains Walter A. Heath, director of the Los Angeles County Department of Adoptions, which pioneered single adoption two years ago and has already placed 42 orphans: "They were all children for whom two parents just could not be found...
...only 14 patients. Even this small number of cases made it clear that the enzyme is likely to be effective mainly, against only one common form of "blood cancer" - acute lymphatic leukemia. All seven patients with this type of disease showed prompt and marked improvement; among them were three children whose bone marrow stopped making abnormal white cells, at least for a while. An eighth patient, who had acute myelocytic leukemia, also enjoyed a temporary improvement, though three others with this type of disease had none. One patient with a third form of leukemia (monocytic) and two with lymphosarcoma...