Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...byproduct of one of the few forms of therapy that can now be started while a baby is still in the womb. When incompatibility of the Rh blood factor between mother and child is serious enough, even a massive transfusion of blood immediately after birth is sometimes too late to save the child. And for such cases doctors have worked out a delicate technique for transfusion in utero. Before they try such major treatment, however, they insert a needle through the mother's abdomen to extract a sample of the amniotic fluid in which the fetus is floating. That...
Lights are burning late at No. 15963 Valleywood Road in Sherman Oaks, Calif. From the study, overlooking a kidney-shaped swimming pool, comes the whir of a movie projector. Hunched over the L-shaped desk, his size-50 jacket slung carelessly on the floor, a bespectacled bear of a man scribbles furiously on a note pad. It is some time between midnight and 4 a.m., the hours that James Thompson Prothro Jr. calls his "thinking hours." It could be chess that Tommy Prothro is thinking about: he is a tournament champion. Or bridge: he collects master points. Or business...
...collaborator husband does not mind his relative oblivion. A former actor, he figures that she was already well on her way before they became a team in 1955. "We'd like to change the use of my maiden name," Brigitte confesses, "but it's probably too late for that...
...Northeast service became a fad. There was, for instance, the plane that loaded up and then sat for so long on the apron that passengers joked to one another about not having a pilot. As it turned out, they didn't; he came along about half an hour late and finally flew them...
Born. To Winston Spencer Churchill II, 25, BBC commentator, Randolph's son and Sir Winston's grandson; and Minnie d'Erlanger Churchill, 26, daughter of the late BOAC chief: their sec ond child, first daughter; in London...