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Spalding found that irradiated mice matured at a greater age, were fertile longer, had more conceptions and more litters than normal mice. But in the irradiated mice the litters were smaller, more babies were stillborn, and more were cannibalized by the parents. Except for a few cases of hydrocephalus, Spalding found no malformed offspring in 32 generations; on the other hand, the non-radiated control group developed a strain of bald mice that was a spontaneous mutation...
...Their Father's Side. At Jackie's request, the remains of her two dead children-Patrick Bouvier, who died last August less than 48 hours after caesarean birth, and a girl stillborn in 1956-were reburied beside their father in Arlington National Cemetery. There was no advance announcement; instead, the transfer was moved up by a day when it appeared that newsmen might get wind of it. Patrick's body was accompanied to Quonset, R.I., from the Kennedy burial plot at Brookline, Mass., by Boston's Richard Cardinal Gushing and Municipal Judge Francis X. Morrissey, both...
Last week Berberian was in Warsaw, where there are no fish to frighten. Through nine adventuresome days at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, mocking smiles and catcalls were stillborn while Warsaw held fast to its reputation as the only city in the world where people really like contemporary music. Berberian sang Circles, a free and atonal composition by her husband, Luciano Berio, in which even punctuation marks in an E. E. Cummings poem have musical counterparts-an aspirate gasp, for example, indicating an exclamation point. Warsaw was delighted...
...winter in the Southern Hemisphere-but the cold August wind caught them by surprise. Striking in the predawn light across the entire state of Parana (where most Brazilian coffee grows) and as far north as São Paulo, it wilted leaves and left September blossoms stillborn on the branch. Within hours, a lifeless swath of brown marked its path. Before retreating, the wind devastated about 60% of Brazil's coffee trees in the nation's worst freeze in a decade...
Then a baby was stillborn by Caesarean section in 1956. Caroline and John Jr. followed, both by Caesarean. The new arrival, too, will likely be by Caesarean...