Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vast majority of obstetricians it has always seemed not only sound medical practice but also plain common sense to keep a newborn baby warm-especially if it has difficulty beginning to breathe. In such cases, doctors have a standard treatment: with the baby held head down, they suck fluids out of his nose, mouth, throat and bronchi, and give oxygen. If after five minutes the baby still does not breathe, they may try artificial respiration or give more oxygen. But with the baby kept warm...
Hymns & Games. When Percy graduated in 1941, a fulltime job was waiting for him at Bell & Howell. Joe McNabb put him in charge of the company's newborn defense-contracts department. Two years later Chuck joined the Navy, where his business experience led to a post in procurement operations...
...about the identity of the nation's No. 1 killer: heart, kidney and circulatory diseases, including strokes, which accounted for 55% of the nearly 2,000,000 deaths in 1962. The second-place killer is cancer (16%). The other major causes of death: accidents (6%), diseases in the newborn (4%), influenza and pneumonia (3%), diabetes (2%), congenital malformations (1%), cirrhosis of the liver (1%) and suicide...
...coverage in Southeast Asia. Correspondent Eric Pace stuck close to South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Khanh, while other aspects of the situation were watched by James Wilde, just back with fresh impressions and a high fever from the guerrilla-infested jungle, and John Shaw, who left his wife and newborn son in Hong Kong to lend a hand in Saigon. From the Los Angeles bureau, Keith Johnson flew to Honolulu for interviews with Admiral Sharp. Reports Johnson: "Covering part of a war from Hawaii is an odd experience. The languid beauty of the place makes it an incongruous setting for anything...
...1940s turned nearly bankrupt Universal Pictures into a $7,000,000-a-year profitmaker by luring away stars from other studios, made a further killing by selling old movies to TV, later gained control of Skiatron, which pioneered pay TV, and finally went international in 1948 by persuading the newborn Republic of Indonesia to make him its U.S. trade broker, a deal involving $150 million a year before it collapsed in 1950; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...