Word: four-year-old
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...Bridge, N.J. But the plea was not enough for New Jersey's Board of Child Welfare. Last week, in the state's second highest court, the board moved to deny Gloria and Dick Combs's dearest desire-to adopt their foster child, a gay, elfin four-year-old. The board's reason: Alice Marie, according to social workers, is too bright to remain in the Combses' "television-centered" household...
...earliest memories is of riding into the little Southern California town of Artesia with her farmer father to buy the weekly staples. While Will Ryan shopped, his four-year-old daughter waited patiently, perched on the high seat of the family buggy. "I would never, never ask for anything." she remembers, "but how I hoped! I'd watch the corner to see if he came back carrying a straw berry cone. That was the big treat." If there was no cone, the little girl understood that her father had no money left for treats, and she stifled her disappointment...
...countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. This trend was first spotted two years ago by President Boyd MacNaughton, 51, of Hawaii's second largest sugar company, C. Brewer & Co., Ltd., which arranged to design and operate a 25,000-acre sugar plantation for Iran. Said MacNaughton: "If we want to grow and expand in the sugar business, we have to do it outside Hawaii and the U.S." Into the Sudan. Both Sugar International and Brewer are seeking a go-ahead from the four-year-old Republic of the Sudan to set up a joint U.S.-Sudanese privately owned...
...blind child's spirit even more than its physical handicap. At home, Pamela was taught to dress herself and brush her teeth, even to chew (something many children learn by watching others). In a nursery school she played unselfconsciously with sighted children, conducted herself with fiery, four-year-old independence...
...awful headache," four-year-old Barbara Mathis wailed to her mother. "I don't want any breakfast." All day, Barbara rested on the living-room sofa. That night, when her temperature rose to 102, her parents took Barbara to a doctor, who looked at the child's inflamed throat, gave her a shot of penicillin. It was no help. Next day, Mrs. Lorraine Mathis returned from market in Forked River, N.J., and found Barbara unconscious, in convulsions, her temperature raging above 110°. Last week, in an ambulance bound for a Manhattan hospital, Barbara Mathis died...