Word: infantalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan luncheon, West Point Cadet Colin Kelly III, 22, son of World War II's Distinguished Service Cross-winning air hero, heard Dwight Eisenhower recount how Franklin D. Roosevelt requested that some future President appoint the hero's son, then an infant of 18 months, to West Point as a tribute to his father's bravery. Yet when he offered the young man a presidential appointment, continued Ike, young Kelly politely declined the favor: "Thank you very much -I'll earn it myself." "Which he did," said Ike. After lunch, the old soldier joined Kelly...
Glass believes himself to have a mystic affinity with the infant psyche, and calls his toys "a substitute for a son." He explains, as an example, that he got the idea for Mr. Machine while having a telephone conversation with his former wife. "Just before she slammed down the receiver, she said to me. 'You are nothing but a machine.' And I decided that a toy named Mr. Machine would be an adequate psychological symbol of our times." Glass, who is already planning his 1964 line, manufactures no toys himself, instead leases his ideas to toymakers (Mattel, Ideal...
...together the uneasy coalition of Kenya's deeply antagonistic political parties, Kenyatta's KANU and Ronald Ngala's KADU. To succeed Renison, Duncan Sandys picked a man with a better chance of making delay palatable: Malcolm MacDonald, 61, a famed proconsul who has helped nurse more infant nations through independence than almost any other British official...
...mother and sister had already reached a decision: the baby must not be allowed to live. From Dr. Casters, they got a prescription for enough barbiturates to kill an infant. Suzanne's husband, Jean Van de Put, 35, was given little say. Soon after she got home, Suzanne mixed the barbiturates with the honey-sweetened formula. The week-old baby died. The police, tipped off by Mme. Van de Put's suspicious pediatrician, found not only the dead baby but the cause of its deformities: thalidomide in the Van de Puts' medicine chest...
Only 1% of Yemen's population attended primary school-and 30% of this elite suffer from pellagra. Infant mortality up to two years of age runs 58%, one of the world's worst. In all Yemen there are only three hospitals, two high schools and a primitive military academy, but the six-man Yemenite Foreign Office used to concoct reports to the U.N. of totally imaginary hospitals and schools, including a College of Aviation...