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...Welfarest State. The Swedish welfare state takes care of its citizens from the womb (prenatal benefits to mothers), to birth (maternity hospitals), to infanthood (home assistants to young mothers), through school (free lunches), to jobs (vocational training), through sickness (next-to-free hospitals), through accidents (invalid insurance), through mental troubles (free psychiatric advice), through old 'age (old-age pensions), to the tomb (funeral benefits), to salvation, if possible (state-paid preachers...
...whose "guilt is unique in its enormity?" Journalist Willi Frischauer, a Viennese who went to Britain as a foreign correspondent in 1935 and has lived there ever since, gives some of the answers in an admirable, well-documented biography. Not only has Frischauer pondered Goering's career from womb to ash can; he has also won the confidence of such key figures as Goering's widow, his valet and some of his military aides. The result is popular biography at its best...
...well as transmitters, and women can only be transmitters of hemophilia.* Common belief is almost, but not quite, true. By Mendelian laws of inheritance, the daughter of a father-bleeder and a mother-carrier can be a bleeder. Doctors believed that such a child would die in the womb. . The British doctors report that a patient of 24 who visited a Manchester clinic during her first pregnancy had a history of easy bruising and free bleeding. Nevertheless she had a natural delivery and went home ten days later. Then the trouble began. There was profuse uterine bleeding, which could...
After all, what more indication of the womb-like nature of college is needed than the behavior of an alumnus returning for a reunion? He tries to abandon for a week or so all his "responsibilities," to immerse himself in an ivied atmosphere where comfortable memories subsist in every cranny...
...defined, authorities have disagreed widely as to its cause. No speculation seemed too absurd. Mongolism, said some, looking at the slanted eyes of its victims, was racial evidence of "the Mongol in our midst." Others, more responsible, argued that it was caused by "advanced maternal age," exhaustion of the womb, ovarian disorders, an upset gland (any gland would do) or, finally, heredity...