Word: infantability
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Bouncer. In Troy, N.Y., four-year-old Lenore Gittleman fell from a three-story window, caromed off an awning, struck a 50-year-old woman, landed unhurt beside an infant in a baby carriage...
...Missionary-Nurse Marie Schultze, a 49-year-old Presbyterian, 98% of the 8,000 babies survived the critical first five years of childhood. At her tiny, spotless Madre e Hijo Clinic in Santiago's squalid slums, she had given 20 years to prove that Chile's average infant mortality rate could be cut from 21.7% to less than 2%. For this, she became last fortnight the second woman* to receive the Chilean Government's highest decoration to foreigners: the Orden al Merito...
...shirt $6 and the average worker earning about $1 a day was out of luck. Even Chile's famed social laws, which insured him against practically everything, were powerless to buy him shirt or eggs. From his predicament spiraled massive social problems: poor public health (devastating tuberculosis and infant mortality rates), declining industrial output, alcoholism...
...many U.S. parents' Dr. Gesell's Infant and Child in the Culture of Today (1943) is now a child-care handbook. Thousands more saw the MARCH OF TIME Life with Baby, filmed at the Yale Clinic...
...word could describe India, it would be poverty. The ignorance of the farmer, the infant mortality rate, the cholera epidemics, the biannual famine, are all results of the unhappy fact that there isn't enough to eat. India, whose population totals almost 400 million, and whose land area is actually a subcontinent, must import rice from Burma and Thailand. Her own production, per acre, is only one-third that of Japan. The average farmer earns about twenty dollars a year, when his land yields anything. When it fails, as it does so often, he gets into the statistics...