Word: infantability
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...people still live outside the money economy in appalling poverty. Brazil stands only 13th among Latin American nations in per capita income ($520 a year), below even backwaters like Surinam. The average life expectancy is only about 50 years (against 67 in Castro's Cuba), and infant mortality is increasing. In rural areas of the arid Northeast, the average calorie intake of peasants has declined in recent years from 1,800 a day to 1,323-more than 1,200 below what United Nations' food experts consider the minimum for subsistence...
...Baltimore three years ago, the parents of a newborn Mongoloid baby refused to allow an operation to correct a fatal defect in the infant's digestive tract. Despite pressure from doctors and hospital personnel, they refused to change their minds, and the child slowly starved to death...
...George III. Richard Tregaskis' "biography" is therefore a blend of the fanciful and the factual. But it makes a fascinating tale that hurtles home like one of its hero's long spears. Kahekili, the warlord who was probably Kamehameha's real father, attempted to have the infant killed because of a threatening prophecy. Later, other princes were awed when the stripling moved a huge stone that mature warriors could not budge. Kamehameha began as a not-so-noble savage who brained and impaled foes in combat, conquered cousins, uncles and dear old Dad in a series...
...good side, however, the infant mortality rate has declined for all races, from 47 per 1,000 live births in 1940 to 19.2 in 1971. Also presumably an improvement, although many might dis agree, is the fact that only 9% of U.S. households had television sets in 1950, while 96% had them...
Ralph Nicholson, a senior assistant postmaster general, argues that the old U.S. Post Office performed many different roles essential to the developing nation. It was a builder of roads, an employer of last resort. It charged low rates to second-class users to stimulate an infant free press and the flow of ideas throughout the country. Those days are over, Nicholson says, and adds: "Maybe we look like the heavies in this second-class matter, and I guess...