Word: infant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...twelve of the new nations eased into independence without the convulsive birth spasms that racked the infant Belgian Congo Republic. Premier Debre promised to sponsor them in their candidacy for the United Nations. Echoing the leaders of the other states, all of whom will remain "associated" with the Community to reap its economic and political advantages, Gabon's Premier Leon M'Ba said: "You can count on Gabon's remaining with France for better or worse...
...Guevara was born in the Argentine grain port of Rosario on June 14, 1928, the first of five children in a family of Spanish-Irish descent and some small inherited wealth. Father Guevara was determined to give his premature and puny son a hardy upbringing, and sunned the sickly infant on a balcony wrapped only in a diaper despite the 45° chill of midwinter. Che was plunged into bathtubs of cold water and doused under icy showers. He developed a persistent cough and later serious allergic asthma...
With electronic swiftness, the Puck-eyed, bubbly-voiced infant became the Shirley Temple of Mexico's commercial television, adored by the country's boisterous bubble-gum set and avidly sought by manufacturers of candy, soda pop, cereal and children's medicines. Since then Janette, now 4, has piled up enough pesos to buy a small farm, where she languishes weekends with the aplomb of a Hollywood starlet, tending her flocks of ducks and chickens and her pet pig. Janette's father, Agustin Arceo, a salesman of auto lubricants, objects to all this, but is solidly outnumbered...
...states. A licensed pilot, Teddy hedgehopped into remote areas, helped swing Arizona and crack Johnson's solid front in New Mexico. Sensing a saturation of Kennedys in the East, he plans eventually to move to the West with his wife (the former Joan Bennett of Bronxville, N.Y.) and infant daughter, and probably enter politics. Says Brother Bobby: "Teddy is really outstanding. He's going to be something...
...island where Paris took Helen the first night after he stole her from Menelaus, and who still retain the purest links of Greece's pagan past. Old Maniots are convinced that Nereids haunt the local fountains, and mothers believe that the three Fates hover over an infant's cradle to write invisible destinies on the child's brow (moles are known as "writings of the Fates"). Seafarers claim that Gorgons grip their caiques in a storm and ask in ringing tones, "Where is Alexander the Great?" If the captain shouts, "Alexander the Great lives and reigns...