Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brand-new, 2,000,000-member United Church of Christ came officially into being in Philadelphia last week. The infant church, composed of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church, elected as its first president Dr. Ben Mohr Herbster, 56, pastor of the 925-member Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church of Norwood, Ohio, for the past 30 years...
...lobby has lost many a battle. It fought Blue Cross hospital insurance (a "half-baked scheme" that would result in "mechanization of medical practice"), the American Red Cross Blood Bank, federal aid to medical schools ("a backdoor route" to socialized medicine), federal aid to states to reduce infant and maternal death rates, disability payments under social security. All are now in effect. But in the greatest of all contests, the 1949-51 battle over the Truman-Ewing national health insurance plan, A.M.A. scored a smashing win. Through the 19403, opinion polls had shown that a majority of the U.S. electorate...
...dawdling in the cafes of Paris and packed him off to the Aran Islands, conceivably the most significant trip in modern dramatic literature, for out of it came Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World. Again, if Yeats had not spoon-fed Dublin's infant Abbey Theater with the heady ethnic pabulum of Cathleen ni Houlihan, there would have been neither stage nor actors for the memorable tragi-comedies of Sean O'Casey. And above all, there was the matchless mature poetry of Yeats himself, not popular balladry as he had hoped, not mythic...
...Clinic of Child Development in 1911 to study abnormal children, soon realized that too little was known about normal children, spent the rest of his life observing them and writing about them in more than 25 books; of pneumonia; in New Haven. Conn. In his three best-known works. Infant and Child in the Culture of Today, The Child from Five to Ten and Youth: The Years from Ten to Sixteen, which were translated into 25 languages, Gesell explained behavior patterns from cradle through adolescence to generations of anxious parents. His basic point: "The developing child is the most complicated...
...earthier offshoot of the Episcopalians, just as the United Church is a more freewheeling version of Calvinism than the Presbyterian. He purposely omitted the Lutherans and the Baptists, though he hopes they will eventually come in. The Baptists are too jealous of their congregational autonomy and are intransigent against infant baptism. The Lutherans in the U.S. are in the throes of pulling themselves together with mergers of their own (there have been 16 major Lutheran unions since...