Word: well-to-do
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...fulfill their religious obligations, a group of well-to-do Yugoslav Moslems made a pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina and then visited Baghdad before returning to the Serbian province of Kosovo. Most brought gifts from Iraq. Yugoslav health officials suspect that some also brought back variola major, the most virulent form of smallpox. Two weeks after their homecoming -variola's incubation period-several of the travelers came down with smallpox, triggering an epidemic that has infected 155 and killed at least 28 in just a month. Only now is the outbreak being brought under control...
...make the woman, and the era of grande dame editors as arbiters of fashion has ended. It closed last week with the resignation of Nancy White as editor in chief of Harper's Bazaar after 14 years of trying to shape tastes for the with-it and the well...
Died. Arthur Spingarn, 93, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1940 to 1966; in Manhattan. Arthur and Joel Spingarn, sons of a well-to-do Jewish tobacco merchant, were so moved by the 1909 Lincoln Day Call-a manifesto of neo-Abolitionist fervor that urged an uplift movement for blacks-that they joined the founders of the N. A. A.C.P. Joel became the group's second president while Arthur headed its national legal committee. Arthur marched in the streets to protest lynchings, and smashed glasses in the Manhattan saloons that discouraged integrated patronage...
...fetus and young infant is very important in determining its later mental and physical traits. The structure of our health care delivery system is such that poor mothers and their infants, in general, get inadequate pre-natal and peri-natal care. Many more infants of poor mothers than of well-to-do mothers are stillborn, born prematurely, ill, or prone to peri-natal infections. After birth, many of them continue not to get proper food and medical care. No one can assess their genetic potential, because their pre-natal and peri-natal environments preclude its expression...
...murmur while away from his mother at scout camp. The sudden illness separates him from an ardently admiring young friend and sends him home to be nursed by Mama. The doctor's prescription, conveniently enough, is a rest-cure at Bourbon Les Bains, a typically French resort for the well-to-do where the guests nurse their hypochondria with daily doses of mineral water and gossip. At the baths, Mother's attempts at strict motherliness break down under close quarters, and Laurent asserts his maturity by taking on the role of her public escort. His pride is deflated when...