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...California at Berkeley. Convinced of the need for more U.S. good will and good works in Latin America, Blatchford swung into ACCION in 1960, six months before the Peace Corps got under way. Today the organization has 30 Americans and 30 Venezuelans working in 25 slums in Caracas, Maracaibo and other cities. Typically, they win slum dwellers' confidence by organizing volleyball or baseball teams, then build a recreation area and later divide the teams into bucket brigades to clean up the barrio. Soon the whole community joins in, digging, hammering and painting, installing sewers, sidewalks, water systems. ACCION workers...
...Equally thriving: Venezuela's Prieto quints, still in Maracaibo's University Hospital...
...odds were 54,000,000 to 1, but it happened-and not once, but twice in a single week. The odds-off event: quintuplets. The first set, five boys, was born Sept. 7 in Maracaibo, Venezuela; the second, four girls and a boy, arrived seven days later in Aberdeen, South Dakota. At week's end mothers and quints were doing fine...
...Even a Yelp. Last July, when X rays disclosed that she was carrying a fivesome, Venezuela's Inés Maria Cuervo, 34, fainted dead away. Once revived, the mother-to-be, the common-law wife of an oilfield worker, was tucked into bed at Maracaibo's University Hospital, put on a strict diet, and watched around the clock by doctors and nurses. During the delivery, she was conscious and calm. "At least let out a yelp," pleaded one nurse, "so we know you are having a baby." Her tiny boys arrived over a period of 50 minutes...
...fund to cover the boys' education. The family can well use it. Inés María and the babies' father, Efrén Lubín Prieto, 38, live in a 20-ft.-sq. mud hut in a dismal slum on the shore of Lake Maracaibo. Out of Efrén Lubín's earnings of $10 a day, he supports 18 people, including ten children from his previous families and four from Inés María's first marriage. No one seemed to mind that the parents were unwed; after...