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...Lyon P. Strean and Lyndon A. Peer studied 228 cases of cleft palate at Newark's Hospital of St. Barnabas, 40% among first-born children. Going back over the mothers' experiences during the critical weeks of pregnancy-when the two halves of the upper jaw normally fuse in the palatal arch-the doctors found that 23% had been ill or injured, and no less than 68% recalled emotional disturbances. Notable among these were a death in the family, loss of a job, marital incompatibility, worry because of a previous miscarriage; 19% had "morning sickness" with vomiting. Drs. Strean...
...capital city of New Delhi. The bill repelled the chaotic factions who have cried for the fragmentation of India along the boundary lines of its 844 languages and dialects. The key move, thought up by Nehru's Socialist and independent opponents and gratefully grasped by him, was to fuse the hostile linguistic factions of Marathas (27.5 million) and Gujrati (17.5 million) into one big, Texas-sized, bilingual State of Bombay...
Having left one fuse sputtering, Harriman took steps to stamp out another. Journeying south to be principal speaker at a dinner meeting of North Carolina's Stevenson-minded Young Democrats in Asheboro, he vigorously denied the oft-repeated statement that he had advocated the use of federal troops for enforcement of desegregation. "Such a suggestion is repugnant to everything that I believe...
Beneath this calm surface, the Democratic situation of 1956 has the ingredients for as much hollering and noise as the party has ever heard before. There is the basic split between moderates and radicals on economic and social policy. The fuse burns short on the civil-rights issue. And personal bitterness grows between,, the two leading candidates for the nomination: Adlai Ewing Stevenson of Illinois and William Averell Harriman of New York. The key question as the convention approaches: Will the quiet be broken...
...more than a week the invitation, amply anticipated, had sputtered like a bomb fuse in Washington's top drawers. Last week the President weighed the obvious pluses and minuses and gave the answer: Airman Twining could go. Ike made it plain that the U.S. has no intention of reciprocating with an invitation to Bulganin and Khrushchev, no intention of lowering its guard. With these essential provisos, the President thought it both safe and desirable to send an observer of Nate Twining's caliber to Moscow to cock a practiced eye at the Red jets and, perhaps, to probe...