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...Kasba Mechta, reported TIME Correspondent Edward Behr, who flew in by helicopter, vultures wheeled overhead, and the wail of women filled the air. Bodies sprawled in every hut. In the mosque lay 87 grotesquely tumbled bodies; the ground was black with blood and brains. In all, the French counted 302 corpses...
When the infant's head emerges, the fully conscious mother demands to know whether she has a boy or a girl. "I can't tell," the doctor replies. "That part isn't out yet." Moments later, the shrill wail of young David Usill rises above the murmur of the bedside sounds. "Oh, doctor," breathes the mother, "that's beautiful...
Hadn't we better listen to a proven peacemaker (Eisenhower), rather than a proven failure (Acheson) in shaping our foreign policy in the Middle East? The best proof that Eisenhower's proposal accomplishes the desired ends is the anguished wail from behind the Iron Curtain...
...skies opened up and drenched Monaco one morning last week, portending in Riviera folklore the prospect of prosperity, health and character to all children born during rainstorms. In Monaco's pink-walled palace, Princess Caroline Louise Marguerite, 8 lbs. 3 oz., uttered her first wail, set off a chain reaction including a radio broadcast by her nervous father, Prince Rainier III, 33, a 21-gun salute from two ancient cannon, harbor whistles, bonfires, street dancing and a torrent of free champagne. No longer would Monacans worry that Rainier would die without an heir, a catastrophe that might have eventually...
...says Dr. Russell, but this risk is much smaller than the danger of birth trauma that may be caused by attempts to hasten delivery. Considering the long rehearsal and preparation for birth that infants undergo, says Dr. Russell, the surprising fact is that more babies do not begin to wail in the womb...