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...interested in your article on the new bags to keep premature babies warm [March 1] as I had a three-pound daughter born at eight months. There were no incubators, so a tiny bag was made for her from absorbent cotton covered with cheesecloth. It had an attached hood, something like a parka, and the bottom was closed. She wasn't bathed for six weeks, but was oiled daily by opening the bag. This was 40 years...
...Bury Saint Edmunds, the ancient market town where she was born, in a Manderley-size house whose architecture manages to combine Tudor, Queen Anne and Georgian periods. There is a Rolls in the garage, but the author insists: "Except for gin and cigarettes, I could live on a pound a week...
...roughly 9,000,000 people, are engaged in agriculture. The farmers want 15% price increases for their products, even though the E.E.C.'s external tariffs and food prices are already very high. A ring of Italian smugglers was recently able to make $6,000,000-or 80? a pound-by importing 5,000 tons of butter from Communist Eastern Europe and reselling it in Common Market countries...
...American customers. Now Hiroshima-based Toyo Kogyo Co. Ltd., Japan's fourth largest car manufacturer, is challenging Detroit with fresh technology. In Washington, Florida and Texas, the company has quietly begun selling two compact models equipped with German-designed Wankel engines, which generate twice as much horsepower per pound of weight as conventional piston engines. In California, where Toyo Kogyo will introduce its Mazdas next month, auto dealers have sized up the car as such a hot prospect that 527 have applied for 75 franchises...
...wasn't into wrestling." says Galeski. "I just went out because the team had no one to fill the 118-pound division. Even if I got decisioned. I saved them two points per match, since they didn't have to forfeit that weight class"-which is a good philosophy for a guy who wound up the season with a slightly disappointing 1-14 record...