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...dawn one day last week, in the Lima Maternity Hospital, Hilda Trujillo gave birth to a daughter weighing a trifle over six pounds. The mother took no anesthetic, and the five-hour labor was entirely normal; so was the child, except that it was perhaps a month premature. Not normal: the mother's age. She was herself a child of nine years, seven months, 28 days. Only a few months ago she wore white cardboard wings and played an angel in the third-grade play at school...
...Muscle Builders. Ever since the dawn of independence in 1947, Nehru and his government have been working to strengthen India's economic muscles. Between 1951 and 1956, India's $5 billion first five-year plan increased the country's total agricultural output 18%. With the second five-year plan, New Delhi's economists hoped to raise per capita income to $69 a year, and double electric power output. Above all, they planned to treble steel production, thereby give India the heavy industry that all the world's underdeveloped nations yearn for as the badge...
FROM the days of medieval manuscript illuminators to the dawn of the 18th century, Britons relied mainly on foreigners for their art. Then, in a great burst of cultural enthusiasm, the demand for-first-rate art sparked a renaissance at home, producing local talents of such high accomplishment that for 150 years Britain could claim artistic standing with any nation in Europe...
...Strain. Hoping to steal a march on the rest of the U.S. airline industry, Capital flew bravely into the jet-age dawn by buying 60 British Viscount turboprops three years ago, agreed to pay $67.5 million within five years of delivery plus interest to London bankers who financed the deal. As of 1956, Capital managed to pay $12.4 million of the debt, and badly strained itself in the process. Though revenues soared from $48 million in 1954 to $63.7 million last year, costs went up so fast that net income tumbled from $1.7 million in 1954 to a net deficit...
...original launching, scheduled for dawn, was postponed until the supposed zero hour of 4 p.m. yesterday. However, continual troubles occurred and the satellite never got up. Launching times were set and postponed six times during the evening...