Word: infantability
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...swift-growing tissues from an embryo or a very young baby. Last week Surgeon Julian A. Sterling of Philadelphia's Albert Einstein Medical Center reported that he had put this theory into practice and transplanted an entire thyroid gland, with its four tiny parathyroids attached, from an infant to an adult, and that the graft had worked well for five months. It was, he believed, the first case of its kind...
...Children's Bureau's Infant Care, which is published in eight languages, has sold 8,519,000 copies (at 20? a copy) over the past 39 years. *Jan. 19 is also the birthday of her two children. * Last year Oveta Hobby was eleventh on the list of the world's best-dressed women, in a tie with Mamie Eisenhower. *"Call me Madam," said Frances Perkins, the first woman Cabinet member, on her first day in office-and gave herself a title she has regretted ever since...
...Aroused Tarheels organized a North Carolina Good Health Association, gave themselves a thorough examination and discovered they were in worse shape than they had imagined. Almost one-third of North Carolina's 100 counties were without hospitals, the state stood eighth highest in maternal death rate, tenth in infant mortality, third from the bottom in number of doctors per capita. North Carolina medical schools were turning out only 35 doctors a year for in-state practice...
...bring your children along before they are two months old. Babies of six months and over are uncommonly awkward to handle. When the baptismal water is poured over their heads, they react strongly and try to get away . . . That can be quite tricky with a healthy, struggling infant. I don't mind the noise, but it's a bit too much when they try to fight the priest...
Greek v. Trivialities. The crisis in young Norbert's life came after his graduation from college at 14. Neither child nor man, he was physically exhausted and suddenly troubled by "one of the greatest realizations that the infant prodigy must make: he is not wanted by the community." Enrolled as a graduate student at Harvard, Norbert was frequently miserable. "I had no proper idea of personal cleanliness and personal neatness, and I myself never knew when I was to blurt out some unpardonable rudeness." By now, he wanted to rebel against papa, yet he lacked the daring...