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...Buenos Aires, Maríia Ester, Maríia Fernanda, Marfa Cristina, Carlos Alberto and Franco Jr., the Diligenti quintuplets, dressed up in their party best, joined playmates in giggling at a clown, puffed out 40 candles on a huge cake, then posed for a eighth-birthday picture...
...Diligenti Quintuplets of Argentina-Carlos Alberto, Maria Ester, Maria Fernanda, María Cristina, and Franco-posed for photographers and looked like a fine quiver-full for Papa. Their dresses and ribbons looked like the same they wore for their second-birthday picture last July. But María Fernanda now asserted herself -with a spit curl...
...wives' saying: nature tries to make up for man's mass killings by multiple births. How else explain the widespread news of quintuplets, quadruplets, triplets and twins? Last month had seen U.S. Army Sergeant Bill Thompson's British-born quadruplets (TIME, March 13), the Argentine Diligenti quintuplets (TIME, March 27), the Argentine quadruplets born (they soon died) the same week the Diligentis were discovered, the sextuplets Nicaragua claimed one day, denied the next. Last week Manhattan's Sloane Hospital for Women had two unforgettable days...
Only two of the quints are identical; the rest are all types, ranging from blond to dark. Papa Diligenti calls them a "full house"-three queens, two jacks. They are healthy, normal children; they were bottle-raised in their own home, never saw a doctor. Their diet is sensible, plain, with plenty of fruit juices...
...still a mystery how quintuplets could be concealed so long. Perhaps their parents' irregular relationship kept them socially isolated. Possibly Argentine newsmen are not alert. But it is no mystery to Papa Diligenti. He planned it that way, even registering the births in different offices or not at all. Midwife Delfino kept her pledge. The household was mum as clams. Forceful Papa Diligenti had made his wishes clear: "Do I want a bunch of maniacs running through my house, bulbs flashing in my babies' faces? I want my children to live normal lives. . . . I don't want...