Word: cribs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founded is led by a troika. Grandson H. F. (for Herbert Fisk) Johnson, 64, board chairman, directs marketing. Great-Grandson Samuel Curtis Johnson, 36, is executive vice president in charge of new products-and has been the obvious heir to the top job ever since he was in the crib. Finance is handled by Howard Merrill Packard, 54, the only non-Johnson ever to serve as president...
...INCONGRUOUS SPY, by John Le Carré. The first two thrillers by the author of The Spy Who Came in from the Cold have been reissued in one volume. His first is a workmanlike crib on Josephine Tey; the second is about British intelligence, has some of the same characters as The Spy. Both are fine whodunits...
Facts of Mystery. Characteristically inexplicable was what happened in Philadelphia during a heat wave in the last two weeks of June. There were 19 crib deaths, more than twice the usual number, among babies under six months, mostly boys. One explanation offered was that the babies died of dehydration, and this seemed plausible for a time because there were only one or two crib deaths right after the heat broke. But post-mortem examination of the victims showed no dehydration. And other cities that had suffered the same heat, or worse, reported no increase in crib deaths, which only served...
Until a dozen years ago, most crib deaths were laid to suffocation, and anguished mothers blamed themselves for carelessness. Then Dr. Keith Bowden, an Australian pathologist, did detailed autopsies in 40 consecutive cases and found that suffocation was not the cause in any of them. In most cases, he discovered evidence of a severe respiratory infection, of a type that develops incredibly fast. But for some deaths, he could find no cause...
...Brain. Ironically, Philadelphia is one of the places where the most intensive work has been done on crib deaths. Dr. Marie Valdes-Dapena, who has studied the problem for years, says that as many as 80% of crib deaths cannot be explained even after an unusually detailed autopsy. Dr. Frederic Rieders, the city's chief toxicologist, discovered an unidentified red substance in the brains of 80% of babies whose deaths are unexplained, and has found the stuff in only 20% of cases where there is a known cause of death. But what it is, or what relationship it bears...