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...referee at the Carnera-Baer title fight...
...their decision to leave the official price intact while abandoning the gold pool, the seven nations pulled a 24-karat rug out from under the hoarders. As Zurich Banker Hans J. Baer put it: "The central banks are saying to the speculators: 'Take it to the dentist.' ! With the London gold market, the world's largest, closed until April 1, the demand for gold dropped abruptly last week in smaller markets elsewhere. In Zurich, gold bars that brought $43 per oz. at the start of the week sold for $39.25 by week's end. In Paris...
...stores. "Six or eight years ago, 40 stores made a good-size center," says Detroit Developer Alfred Taubman. "Today, we want a minimum of 80 stores and average from 125 to 150." That puts a premium on compact use of land. To squeeze a potentially rival department store (Stix, Baer & Fuller) into their Crestwood Plaza near St. Louis, Developers Louis and Milton Zorensky erected a building on stilts above the parking lot. In a sharp departure from the norm of the '50s, department stores themselves provide the impetus nowadays for most regional centers; they pick the site, arrange...
...Waldemar Medical Research Foundation has demonstrated for the first time that a metal can be welded firmly to dental enamel by ultrasonic vibrations. He hopes to use that method to replace missing teeth and damaged tissues. Working toward the possibility of a "tooth bank," the NIDR Dr. Paul Baer has already nurtured teeth in the yolks of incubating eggs. No one has found a way to transplant teeth from one person to another, but it soon may not be necessary. In 1965, a group of Brown University scientists were able to implant plastic teeth in baboons; the teeth are still...
...fresh from lifting weights in a European circus. As a fighter he was a joke, but fixed bouts and blaring publicity led to a payday championship match with the slipping Jack Sharkey. Incredibly, Camera won-on a lucky sixth-round knockout. He lasted only a year, until Max Baer took away his title with eleven knockdowns in eleven rounds. Camera returned to Italy penniless, his purses siphoned away by his handlers, finally settling into a clownish career as a wrestler...