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- 1 2 "Sextuplets Born in Capetown [sic]; Survival Chances Called Good". The New York Times . 12 January 1974. Retrieved 21 September 2009.("Sextuplets have been born to a number of women who have taken (hormone fertility) drugs, and the largest number known to have survived are five of the six babies born in 1973 to Mrs. Edna Stanek of Denver.")
- ↑ "The Six are 30". Daily Dispatch . 10 January 2004. Archived from the original on 15 May 2009. Retrieved 21 September 2009.
- 1 2 "Capetown [sic] Sextuplets Show Progress Against Jaundice". The New York Times . 14 January 1974. Retrieved 21 September 2009.
- ↑ "You've come a long way, babies". Sunday Times . South Africa. 16 October 2013 [11 Jan 2004, amended by the father Colin Rosenkowitz who lives in Cape Town]. Archived from the original on 27 April 2006. Retrieved 22 September 2009.
