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...CORRESPONDENCE OF BORIS PASTERNAK AND OLGA FREIDENBERG 1910-1954 Edited by Elliott Mossman Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 365 pages...
Kurz came up with the notion of using a new bonding technique to attach a brace to the back of the tooth. The braces were tightened by a wire anchored to the patient's molars. After trying a prototype on his receptionist, Kurz filed for a patent in 1976 and sold it two years later to Ormco, a dental-appliance manufacturing company. At present 3,000 of the nation's estimated 7,400 orthodontists have signed up for Ormco-sponsored seminars in Kurz's technique...
...diplomats talk, Britain and Argentina brace for combat...
...decades, the standard way to straighten out a child's curved spine was with a bulky back brace. Worn for up to eight years, it was not a pleasant prospect for the 25 out of 1,000 American teen-agers (90% girls) afflicted with spinal curvatures, or scoliosis. For those with severe curves, surgery often was required. It too had its unpleasant consequences, sometimes including nine months' confinement in a hip-to-chin plaster body cast...
Some of those houses are already preparing for a siege by selling directly to customers: cookbooks in gourmet shops, tax guides in banks. Most have pared their lists dramatically to lower costs. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich has cut back from 110 titles in 1970 to 70 books this year. Says Jovanovich: "Nobody used to make money on first-time authors, but we considered that part of our business. Now, we can't do that." Even established writers are affected. Simon & Schuster, for instance, now retains the foreign-reprint rights-traditionally a low-register gift to the author...