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Children of War. The streets of Saigon contain an incredible panoply of Hieronymus Bosch figures-limbless veterans stumping about in camouflaged fatigues, hideously napalmed women nursing children on the sidewalks, deaf-mute prostitutes selling their wares in sign language, and lepers holding hats in gnarled, swollen hands. But few are more poignant than the ever-present "street children...
TIME Los Angeles Bureau Chief Don Neff reported: "At places, the four-lane street looked like a battleground, grotesquely littered with the limbless torsos of clothing-store mannequins, smoldering overstuffed chairs and pieces of broken glass. At least five stores were gutted by fire. Scores of shops and businesses had their windows smashed and their shelves cleaned out of merchandise...
...work on antimalarial drugs, she suspected that this minor effect on adults might signal a more serious effect on the unborn. But not until nearly ten months later, in the last days of November 1961, did German reports link thalidomide with the European epidemic of seal-like, limbless babies...
...Shell Oil. "[Bader's] main triumph," concludes Biographer Brickhill, "is not his air fighting: that was only an episode that focused a world's attention on the greater victory he was achieving in showing humanity new horizons of courage, not in war, not only for the limbless, but in life...
Hattie Carnegie finally relented last week, closed a discreet curtain on the photographic blowup of limbless men, leaving only the papier-mâché model in the wheel chair to remind her customers of War Loan...