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Interviews with recent migrants to several small nonmetropolitan places elicited attributes of ideal, origin and chosen settlements.Their responses permitted construction of simple measures or valuations of economic, social, individual and environmental aspects of ideal, origin and destination. From these it was possible to evaluate the critical components of the migration decision, to estimate tradeoffs between economic and noneconomic benefits, and to distinguish between probable movers and non-movers.Methods used included content analysis of lengthy recorded interviews, variance-covariance analysis of responses and logit analysis to distinguish movers and non-movers. The majority of respondents were characterized as very negative about life in the cities, where most had moved from, and as positive about both the social and environmental characteristics of their new communities. Economic concerns were of lesser significance to the migrants than expected.

Perinatal infarction of the spinal cord is described in two premature babies who survived for several months. In both cases, there was bilateral, multisegmental infarction at the lower cervicothoracic arterial zone (inferior cervical sector), predominantly within the territory of the anterior spinal artery. Clinically, both infants had acute respiratory failure, diaphragmatic respiration, intercostal paralysis, bell-shaped deformity of the thorax, and bilateral arm paresis. Intubation and ventilator support were required for weeks. Eventual extubation was followed by recurrent respiratory failure, atelectasis, and pneumonia. At the level of the infarction, multiple, scattered scars were found in central, perimedullary, and intramedullary arteries, but not in their parent vessels. The etiology of the angiopathy was not determined. These cases demonstrate that discrete arterial infarction of the cord can occur in premature babies, and that such a lesion should be considered in the differential diagnosis of neonatal respiratory failure.