Word: infantability
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...Orleans' broad Gentilly Road stand the six neat Georgian buildings of Dillard University, framed by an avenue of young trees and a 65-acre campus. Barely five years old, Dillard is an infant beside other leading U. S. Negro universities (Howard, Fisk, Atlanta). But it is a precocious infant...
...Negroes in the U. S., one-third swarm in industrial cities, two-thirds huddle on tired Southern soil. Proportionately they have three times as much tuberculosis and syphilis as whites, a maternal and infant mortality rate more than 60% higher. At birth a Negro baby can look forward to a probable life of only 47 years, compared to a white baby's 59. Herewith TIME tells the story of four attacks on this No. 1 public health problem...
Head of the bustling Central Harlem Health Center is young Dr. John Baldwin West. No chair-warmer, Dr. West often marches into theatres, churches, basements, schools, apartment houses, exhorting Harlemites to visit the Health Center for X-rays, Wassermann tests, infant care. In the last three years, Dr. West and his staff of 200 have X-rayed 250,000 people, have lowered the infant mortality rate from 100 per 1,000 to 52, the maternal mortality rate from 18 to five. Over 500 patients a day visit a venereal disease clinic in the Center. But for all his efforts...
...lawyer Baker left the courtroom last week to attend his newborn infant, the Alcoa suit had already smashed all long-distance records for U. S. court cases. Yellow with age are the early pages of testimony in its 61-volume record. Stacked high in the courtroom are the 68 volumes holding 1,462 exhibits. Still the end is not in sight. Maybe next June, the Alcoa case's second anniversary. Maybe not before election next November. When it does come, it will not be the end. The U. S. Supreme Court will write the final chapter...
...Make yourselves worthy of great books, for your enjoyment of them will depend largely upon what you bring to them." "The feeling which a mother has for her infant is absolutely pure and beautiful...