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...large part of the city's drop in infantile mortality, from 71.1 to 30.4 per 1,000 births during the last 24 years. Today's growing shortage he attributes to 1) prosperity, with fewer women needing the extra income; 2) widespread indifference of doctors to the priceless virtues of mother's milk (breast feeding is discouraged in many hospitals: it means more work for the staff); 3) modern fashions in motherhood -notions that breast feeding is not only a dreadful nuisance but is somehow a little vulgar...
...April Princess Sophie went to Kronberg. But Captain Nash had returned to the U.S. and none of her successors knew anything about the priceless jewels. In the subcellar was nothing but a litter of wine bottles, and an empty hole. Princess Sophie then complained to the U.S. Army. Where were the jewels...
...Government-owned plant at Hanford, Wash. Although the three great piles in the Hanford desert were built to produce plutonium for bombs, their byproduct is unharnessed energy in enormous quantities. G.E. will run the piles at cost plus $1. Its profit will be in priceless experience...
...that Rumania had failed to live up to the Moscow agreements-had censored stories critical of Communists, had not scheduled free elections. Police broke into the American Military Mission headquarters in Bucharest and arrested all Russian civilian employes. Groza issued a routine denial of the U.S. charges, added a priceless promise: "The elections will take place when our barns are full...
...Frank Herrington was wide awake last week. Observers agreed that his contribution to Sino-American relations in the past three years has been priceless. Back in the U.S., his wife was "fairly sure" that he would not take up his old practice again in Middletown, N.Y. (pop. 22,000); he had already written to ask her how she would like to settle down in Shanghai...