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...Child engagements. In one French Guinea tribe, if expectant parents are betting on a girl, the engagement takes place before the bride-to-be is even born. The baby girl gets her engagement ring in her first bath. Disturbed enough by prepuberty engagements, the delegates were shocked at the Guinea custom. "Alas, we cannot change," said one, "until the African man realizes that a woman is not just the daughter of her father, to be disposed of as he likes, or the property of her husband, to be treated as he pleases...
Most doctors go to A.M.A. conventions to see and not to be seen, but in San Francisco last week, more than a thousand M.D. conventioneers became subjects for their colleagues (total attendance: 13,218 physicians, plus twice that many family members, nurses, technicians). The M.D. guinea pigs submitted to being bled for a variety of tests, underwent blood pressure readings, electrocardiograms, stethoscoping and chest X rays. The object: to raise the standard of medical care for physicians themselves...
...your otherwise fine June 2 article on Dr. Gimenez Guinea, you said that Manolete died from a ruptured femoral artery. This is not so. My source? Dr. Gimenez Guinea. I've been under his care here for the last 13 days after suffering an 8-in.-deep horn wound given me by a two-year-old animal while practicing. Like Manolete's wound, the horn missed my femoral by a centimeter but stopped short of the cluster of smaller veins and arteries in the groin, which is what did Manolete...
Censors & Cannibals. The zoo-page report noted that considerable physical progress had been made in Netherlands New Guinea, particularly in the field of public health. But it also painted an unattractive picture of arbitrary, old-fashioned colonial rule: "In the prison at Doom . . . Indonesian infiltrators were housed six or eight to a small cell." In all Netherlands New Guinea, added the report, no private newspapers are published, and such news as is distributed by the government is carefully censored...
Besides being arbitrary, Dutch administration in New Guinea struck the parliamentary team as often ineffective. Fewer than half the 700,000 native inhabitants of Netherlands New Guinea live in areas "under administrative control." Even in one of the allegedly pacified zones-the Wissel Lakes region-the commission revealed that an uprising against the government and subsequent tribal warfare cost the lives of 200 Papuans and ten government troops in late 1956. At Agats sits a government post with 30 men, but its control hardly extends beyond the village limits and only 30 miles away a group of Papuans killed...