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BORN. To Bruce Jenner, 29, Olympic decathlon gold medalist of 1976 and television personality, and Chrystie Jenner, 30, former flight attendant: a boy, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Burton William. Weight: 7 lbs. 12 oz...
...child shortly after birth, doctors found she had a congenital uterine problem. In the past, they might have dissuaded her from becoming pregnant again. Instead they performed corrective surgery and encouraged her to try once more. Twice she gave birth-once to a baby weighing only 1 Ib. 13 oz. Both infants survived and are now, at ages 5 and 2½, healthy, normal youngsters...
...dollar's slide, the Carter Administration began a series of steadying actions last week. The U.S. Treasury announced that starting in November it would boost its gold sales from 300,000 oz. per month to 750,000. To allay any speculation about the oil-rich nations turning against the dollar, Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal met with Saudi Arabian Finance Minister Mohamed Abdel-Kheil at Disney World, of all places, where the minister was vacationing with his family. Blumenthal suggested that a timely statement of support might give the dollar a lift. Soon after, Crown Prince Fahd declared that...
...past is past," muses Nixon, seated as if forever behind a clean desk, the long, lonely horizon of the Pacific beyond him. "I'm not thinking of any political future. That is nonsense." Indeed, for the moment he is thinking about his 9-lb. 4-oz. granddaughter Jennie Eisenhower, born just three days earlier. He arranges by phone with her mother Julie for an evening visit. "We're elated," he says, and seems to be. "We're going to do our share of babysitting. I'll do almost anything but the 2 a.m. feeding...
Blond-haired Louise, whom proud father John described in the Daily Mail as "beautiful, with a marvelous complexion, not red and wrinkly at all," is also at the end of her beginning. Three days after birth, she had gained 2 oz. and was being breast fed. She and her mother will remain in the hospital for about ten days. Then, said John Brown, "we're just going to go home and try to slide back into our own world . . . we don't want a newfangled life." Whether that will be possible is another question. Asked by reporters if the world...