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...convince Jamaica's good-time Charlies of the error of their ways and reduce the ranks of illegitimate "pickneys" is the major concern of an articulate, honey-skinned feminist named Beth Jacobs. Born 41 years ago, and one of six children, she is now a member of the island's Legislative Council, the wife of a doctor popular among the island's U.S. tourists, and the mother of two. Beth Jacobs is first of all in favor of marriage; secondly, she proposes to cut the rate of illegitimate births by contraception. The ideals of Planned Parenthood...
...some support. Says a pretty young seamstress: "What Beth wants is no more unwed mothers running around here, shoving pickneys off on old grandmothers to raise." But one island matron sniffed that "Beth Jacobs is just teaching single girls how to use contraceptives." Bishop John J. McEleney warned the Roman Catholic 6% of the population against the clinic. Occasional signs chalked on walls say, "Birth control is a plan to kill Negroes...
...Fund Drive, the estimated cost being approximately $7.5 million. The Medical Center includes the Medical School and seven affiliated hospitals--the Peter Bent Brigham, the Massachusetts General, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Free Hospital for Women, the Boston Lying-in Hospital, the Children's Hospital, and the Beth Israel Hospital...
...When Beth Sumner goes to India from the U.S. to stay with her sister, who is married to an American medical missionary, she walks right into an East-West fracas. Beth finds the gate to the mission compound barred by wire and empty oil drums, with Indian pickets waving slogans -MISSIONARIES GO HOME. Her sister and brother-in-law tell the story behind the commotion. Eight years before, they adopted an unwanted, illegitimate Indian infant and raised him as one of their own family. Now the Indian father, a merchant, is demanding him back, and missionaries and merchants are grappling...
...scuttles back and forth between her American in-laws and the Indian claimant, sister Beth finds a romantic solution that makes everyone happy-so happy that Elephant Hill's Dickensian climax reads far too untrue to be good. Luckily, this is not the case with a preceding string of incidents that show Author White in his liveliest vein, e.g., an Indian amateur production of Samson and Delilah (featured as Delilah and Simpson, or The Strong Man of Whiskers Reduced by Reason of Passions). Another high point is the long-dreaded moment when the missionaries tell their adopted...