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Like most well-tended babies in the well-tended homes of Westbury, N.Y., brown-haired Peter Weinberger was sleeping off his midday bottle when his mother stepped into the house for a fresh diaper one afternoon last week. Fifteen minutes later, Beatrice Weinberger walked outside and found that 32-day-old Peter had been kidnaped. On the ground was a neatly written note demanding $2,000 ransom, to be placed near a neighbor's garage. Wrote the kidnaper: "I'm scared stiff. Do not notify the police until noon tomorrow or I'll be forced to kill...
...fire in the living room only to find his front yard engulfed by a flood. Allowed to move freely through the countryside once more, huge piles of export freight and armies of overseas-bound passengers found themselves stopped short at Britain's shores by a 25-day-old dockers' strike and a wildcat walkout of seamen manning the Commonwealth's huge passenger vessels...
...seaside villa in Santa Marinella, Italy, some 20 photographers arrived to record the latest production of Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini: the debut of their 21-day-old twin daughters, christened Isotta Ingrid Frieda Giuliana and Isabella Fiorella Elettra Giovanna...
While NATO's diplomats were still congratulating themselves on the job done at Lisbon, the pivotal nation in West Europe's defense threw a disheartening-political tantrum. By a 16-vote margin, the French National Assembly overturned Premier Edgar Faure's 40-day-old cabinet...
...day-old boy on the operating table was a normal, squalling, blue-eyed infant except for one thing: he had been born without an esophagus. Surgeons cut into the abdomen, made an opening in the stomach wall so that the baby could be fed by tube. Then they sat back and hoped for the best...