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Togetherness was possibly somewhat overdone on July 15, 1943, but Argentina's Diligenti quintuplets celebrated their coming of age nicely scattered about the globe. Maria Cristina Diligenti was in Rome, where she works as a secretary. Carlos and Franco, students in British Columbia, put in a full day's work (though their father is a millionaire industrialist) at their summer jobs as $3.19-an-hour Vancouver longshoremen. Back home in Buenos Aires, Marfa Ester and Maria Fernanda are both married, and have three children, two girls and a boy, between them. But all five sent happy birthday besos...
...children struggled for life in incubators, doctors knew they had a fight ahead. Some 50 sets of quints have been recorded in modern medical history, and of those, only two sets survived infancy: the Dionne sisters of Canada, born in 1934, and the Diligenti quints of Argentina, born in 1943. All five Diligentis are still alive, but one of the Dionnes, Emily, died in 1954. Like all other "preemies," the Fischer and Prieto quints could be prone to respiratory troubles, nutritional difficulties and general infection. The odds may be against both sets, but last week odds did not seem...
Millionaire Franco Diligenti's 13-room mansion in Buenos Aires was merry with lights, flowers, a crowd of 500 and the world's only living quintuplets. The crowd, mostly teen-agers in semiformal dress, spilled from the parlor to the patio, swirled around the skating rink, tennis courts and swimming pool. The two Diligenti boys in tuxedos and the three girls in white tulle gracefully acknowledged congratulations on their 15th birthday, the coming-out age in Argentina. Beamed papa Diligenti to Family Dr. Carlos Montagna: "We did a damned good...
...entitled to be called señoritas, the girls can begin having well-chaperoned dates. In a few years the boys will be sent to college in either Canada or England. "When they were children," said father Diligenti, "I had to make sure that they grew up as independent personalities, free from a quintuplet complex. Now that they are men and women, they must learn to fly on their own wings...
...Still thriving are the world's only other known quintuplets, the eleven-year-old Diligenti children (two boys, .three girls) of Buenos Aires. At news of Emilie's death, the Diligenti quintuplets sent a cable of condolences to the Dionne family at Callander...