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Using fetoscopy, physicians can actually see the fetus in the uterus and spot certain physical defects. Says Dr. Thomas Gindhart, of the National Cancer Institute: "You can look right at parts of the fetus as it floats by. You can count the number of fingers." That alone can reveal much about the condition of the fetus. A six-fingered hand, for example, may accompany some forms of retardation. Also discernible are such features as eyes, ears, mouth and genitals. Even more important, the technique enables doctors to take blood and tissue from the fetus. From these samples they can diagnose...
...Mary Gindhart Roebling, 52, was elected as a public governor of the American Stock Exchange, the first woman to reach a major exchange's top policymaking board. Widow of Siegfried Roebling (grandson of the Brooklyn Bridge builder), Mary Roebling took over her husband's job as director of the Trenton Trust Co. in 1936, became president a year later, is now both president and chairman. In her reign, the bank's assets have swelled from $17 million to more than $90 million...
...Governor Meyner suspended four state officials, released 44 pages of detailed charges indicating that the scandal spread far into Jersey politics. Sample charges: ¶ Hoffman deposited $3,427,000 of state money without interest in the Trenton Trust Co., run by his friend and. fellow Republican, Mrs. Mary Gindhart Roebling (whose late husband's family built the Brooklyn Bridge). This enabled her bank to earn about $300,000 in the last five years. The Trenton Trust Co., in turn deposited $150,000 last year in a non-interest account in Hoffman's South Amboy Bank...
...Down to her new office in Trenton bright & early went the only woman bank president in New Jersey and probably the prettiest bank president in the land. Her election to that job in Trenton Trust Co. was no gushing matter to green-eyed, graceful Mary Gindhart Roebling. Briskly she got the jump on local newshawks by asking them if they were depositors in Trenton Trust...
...Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, laid the first plans for the Brooklyn Bridge. After the Civil War he and his son, the late great Col. Washington A. Roebling, built a factory in Trenton to make their own steel cables for that miraculous structure. Col. Roebling finished it. In 1933 Mary Gindhart, a customer's consultant in the Philadelphia office of C. D. Barney & Co., married Siegfried Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. in Trenton. Siegfried Roebling died a year ago, leaving his wife among other things a large stock...
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