In Santiago, Chile, a deaf woman in the jampacked audience at the Teatro Central had trouble following the ceremony on the stage. She turned to her husband, asked why the American nurse was getting a medal: "Because she had 8,000 babies," he answered. "Impossible!" gasped his wife.
But that was what the speakers had said and in a sense it was true. Because of Missionary-Nurse Marie Schultze, a 49-year-old Presbyterian, 98% of the 8,000 babies survived the critical first five years of childhood. At her tiny, spotless Madre e Hijo Clinic in Santiago's squalid slums, she had given 20 years to prove...
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