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...result, the U.S. has dropped from tenth to eleventh place in the roster of nations as measured by baby care. In 1950, the U.S. was in sixth place. Heading the roll now are The Netherlands and Sweden, tied with 153 deaths per 10,000 births. Next come Norway, Finland, Australia, Denmark, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Ireland. It was Ireland that nudged the U.S. out of the top ten last year, by moving up from 13th place. To some slight extent, the U.S. infant-death rate reflects modern medicine's ability to maintain pregnancies and deliver babies...
...under the mesmerized eyes of TV cameras, newsreel photographers and 7,500 sophisticated Japanese swimming fans, he coolly did it again, "hydroplaning" (as one dazzled Tokyo sportswriter put it) up and down Jingu Pool in the world-record time of 1:58.5; later in Osaka, he even shaved a tenth of a second off that mark...
...Statistical studies," he said, "tell us that one-tenth of the Chilean population receives almost half of the national income. This bad distribution of Chile's riches is paid for in malnutrition of the people." Practicing what Silva Henriquez preached about agrarian reform, the Roman Catholic Church in Chile undertook its own land-distribution program, parceling out 13,200 of its own acres in the Andean foothills, and providing financial and technical help to the new proprietors. Cardinal Silva Henriquez has also been the enthusiastic sponsor of Father Pedro Castex, a lively priest in a beret, who lives...
...death in 1911, Gustave Mahler's Tenth Symphony was at best only seven-or eight-tenths finished; most scholars feared that the work was too personal and too fragmentary ever to be completed by another hand. But undaunted British Musicologist Deryck Cooke went ahead, fused and orchestrated the score. Without even listening to it, the composer's widow Alma emotionally vetoed publication in 1960, but last week came word that she had finally heard the tape and changed her mind. The world premiere performance will be by the London Symphony Orchestra next August; Philadelphia's Eugene Ormandy...
...when they hit the atmosphere, but they are dissipated long before they reach the earth. There are also small amounts of gamma rays. Like the X rays, these are electromagnetic radiation that travel with the speed of light (186,000 miles per sec.). Following behind at less than one-tenth the speed of light come neutrons from the nuclear reaction. Most of the rest of the energy released goes into the vaporized debris of the bomb and its casing, which expands into space at less than 200 miles...