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Little boys are not normally noted for observance of protocol. But when William Wallace Daniel, 4, was asked by Grandfather Harry S. Truman, 79, to accompany him to a bridge dedication, William fell solemnly into step a respectful three paces behind, with all the inborn aplomb of a White House aide. After the bridge at Florida's Duck Key had been named after him, Truman met the press. Who would be the Republican presidential candidate? Harry riposted: "I don't nominate Republicans; I just beat...
...most articulate spokesman for this solution is a pretty young woman named Leila Hadley, whose four children (Arthur, 18, Victoria, 10, Matthew, 8, Caroline, 4), plus a peripatetic geologist husband and an inborn wanderlust provided the fieldwork for her new, four-volume guidebook, How to Travel with Children in Europe...
During the last quarter-century, surgeons have been learning to correct many cases of the innumerable inborn defects of the heart. But one form of heart trouble has defied all their skill and ingenuity. Called total transposition of the great vessels, it is devastating in its effects on the victim. Half the babies born with it die within a month, and only a very few survive to reach a severely handicapped adolescence. But last week a team of Cincinnati surgeons reported to the American Heart Association that they had performed a corrective operation on a girl only ten weeks...
...skills and abilities which these exercises impart to the individual are not the type which require any exceptional or inborn ability. Since one of the primary goals of the sport is the development of balance and coordination, there is no question of "aptitude" for athletics either. Karate initiates even minimize the importance of physical fitness or build in the beginner...
Applying the Lyon hypothesis to women, geneticists at California's City of Hope have shown mosaicism in women who suffer from a form of Mediterranean anemia. But this is only one of at least 58 inborn defects that appear to result from defects in X chromosomes. Among others: some forms of color blindness and of anemia, hemophilia, muscular dystrophy, deafness...