Sextuplets, Quintuplets

What, according to the Rule of 87, happens only once in 5,000,000,000 times apparently took place last week in Inotest, Rumania, where one Johanna Lordache was reported to have given birth to sextuplets.* Two died immediately. The others seemed destined to live.

At Corbeil, Ontario the history-making Dionne quintuplets, who were born two months prematurely, continued to thrive in their eighth week (TIME, June 11). Still kept in incubators they wriggled, stretched, arched their backs, waved their limbs and squeaked for food. Montreal mothers sent them 20 oz. of breast milk daily, which Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe last week began to supplement with tomato juice. Mrs. Dionne, who had injured herself by getting out of childbed too soon, was up and about last week.

*Rule of 87: One twin birth occurs to approximately 87 single births; one triplet to about 7,569 singles (87 squared); one quadruplet to about 658,503 singles (87 cubed); one quintuplet to about 57 million singles (87 to fourth power); one sextuplet to about five billion singles (87 to fifth power).

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