For the second time in three years, Chicago doctors were faced with a problem rare in medical history: what to do about Siamese twins joined together at the top of their heads. Deborah Marie and Christine Mary were born (by Caesarean section) a fortnight ago to Norene Andrews, 35, a former nurse, wife of a meat salesman, and mother of a normal five-year-old girl. The twins, who weighed about 6 Ibs. each at birth, ate normally, and woke or slept independently of each other, were united in much the same way as the famed Brodie twins (TIME, Dec. 29, 1952, et...
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