Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ratio of doctors to patients in Watts was 1 to 2,900," she said, "The infant-mortality rate was almost double the overall U.S. rate. Sixty-eight percent of the children I examined had something wrong with them. Ninety percent had never seen a dentist...
...mother is invaded by hundreds of thousands of the red blood cells of the child, each carrying the factor that makes it Rh-positive. During the next few weeks, her system reacts to the foreign cells by developing active antibodies that can then attack the blood of all subsequent children...
Methodical Man. A stocky, serious six-footer who graduated from Yale ('52) and earned both law and business degrees at the University of Michigan, Parsons is such a methodical type that he draws up a written budget of time to be allotted to his wife, his three children and his business. It was only natural that just before leaving school, he drew up a list of cities in which he might like to practice corporate law. Detroit was low on the list because its "environment" was poor. But its law firms were first-rate, and eventually Parsons managed...
...summer of 1963, Selma, Ala., was embroiled in a voter-registration drive among Negroes. In standard response, local police made arrests on charges that ranged from vagrancy to concealing identity, from inciting to riot and truancy (for the children) to driving automobiles without proper license-plate lights...
...order to desegregate all public schools would be a nation-shaking step, the new Chief was anxious that the decision be unanimous, without any separate concurrences. He set out to write that single opinion himself, and after many conferences, revisions and shifts, he brought it off. Separating Negro children "from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race," said Warren, "generates a feeling of inferiority that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone...