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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each year, about 7,000 American babies less than a year old die of inborn heart defects. "Eighty percent of these infants could be saved by surgery," says Baylor University's Pediatrician Dan G. McNamara. The trouble is, Dr. McNamara told an international meeting on the heart and circulation of the newborn, that not enough physicians are trained to detect the sometimes subtle signs that a "cranky" baby may actually have severe deformities of the heart or major blood vessels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pediatrics: The Case of the Cranky Baby | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

...federal registrars be sent into any state if a court finds that 25 of its citizens have been denied on racial grounds the right to vote. Senator Paul Douglas and Clifford Case have suggested that the bill be made to apply to any county in which fewer than 25 percent of the eligible Negro citizens are registered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Beyond the Voting Bill | 4/2/1965 | See Source »

...Percent Down. Early last week from the Seventh Fleet's carriers 250 miles away, Phantom jets and Skyraiders whooshed into the air for yet another in the latest series of U.S. strikes at North Viet Nam. This time the target was closer than ever to North Viet Nam's capital. It was a vital Viet Cong ammunition depot near Phuqui, a bare 120 miles south of Hanoi. Because the ammunition caches were dispersed over an area a mile square, each plane was allotted a predetermined bunker or corrugated-iron building. Two hours later, as the Viet Cong were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: Closer Than Ever to Hanoi | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...Portuguese have controlled Mozambique since Vasco da Gama landed there on his way to India in 1498, but they have never really successfully colonized it. Although the Portuquese boast of their five centuries of "non-racial, Christian, civilizing mission," less than one percent of Mozambique's seven million African inhabitants are literate and less than five percent can speak Portuguese...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Portrait of an African Revolutionary | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

According to the 1950 census, only one-half of one percent of the total African population had achieved the "civilized" status of an "assimilado," an African enjoying full priviledges of citizenship. The other 99.5 percent are classified as "indigenous." They have virtually no civil rights under Portuguese law, and are required to do forced labor on the roads and plantations of the colony...

Author: By John D. Gerhart, | Title: Portrait of an African Revolutionary | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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