Word: wombs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grows impatient with the child's reluctance to depart his fine mandala world, shows anger. "Such human hos tility makes children into bad adults," Mrs. Kellogg says. "If we had more art and better art, there wouldn't be any of this 'going back to the womb.' " To gath er evidence for her beliefs, she has taught some 10,000 children in 35 nursery schools, traveled to every corner of the world, gathered so much child art that it is slowly pushing her out of her four-story house...
...treats very wisely of life and death, Miss Duke asks a contemporary with open-mouthed wonder, "Duh--what's an agnostic?" Miss Duke and her playmate (James Aubrey) seem mature beyond their years throughout most of the play, but in the final scene they regress practically back to the womb, before surging back into virtual senescence for some metaphysical meanderings...
Less common than come-and-go infectious diseases, but far more insidious and likely to cause lifelong handicaps, are the defects humans are born with. The majority of congenital defects, it is currently believed, come when something goes wrong in the womb-typically, cataracts in a child resulting from the fact that the mother had German measles (TIME, Aug. 1, 1960). The rest are hereditary, dating from the instant that a sperm and an ovum, one or both defective, join to make a defective cell. In the subdividing process that starts at once, every newly created cell carries...
...Womb to Tomb. State-run health in surance for employed workers, which metamorphosed into NHS, celebrates its 50th anniversary in Britain this year. NHS as such is now 13 years old. Most Britons, while they are keenly and vocally aware of its shortcomings, would not want to get along without...
What does such security cost? When wartime coalition governments adopted the womb-to-tomb plan fathered by Sir William (now Lord) Beveridge, it was estimated that NHS might cost only $500 million a year. Workmen's payroll taxes, to be applied to NHS costs, were set at 9? a week, to yield an estimated 10% of total costs, with no charges for prescriptions, eyeglasses or dentistry. The deficit would come from the Treasury's general tax funds...