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...Barber's statistics came from a study conducted in Evanston, Ill., after ten years of fluoridating its water. Among Evanston children in the 6-to-8 age bracket, said Dr. Barber, malocclusions were down 20%, while those in the 12-to-14 group had 17% fewer bad bites than teen-agers in nonfluoridated communities. Fluorides, explained Dr. Barber, reduce tooth decay in the important first permanent molars; early loss of these teeth may lead to bite abnormalities and eventual braces or similar tooth-straightening appliances...
Grand Design. But for a man whose fiction has already put him in the 87% income tax bracket, there are more compelling rewards. "I do like to unload," O'Hara said. "I am a man of many interests. Every day when I read the papers I want to comment on something. If there's any grand design to my work, it has been to put down my time to the best of my ability, so that I will be as indispensable to historians of the future as Dickens is to the historians of the 19th century...
...most generous major pensioner listed in a recent Government survey was Grumman Aircraft, whose 30-year, $400-a-month retiree can get as much as $415 a month. Among the tightest: the men's clothing industry, in which a man in the same bracket gets only...
...Louella Ballerino, a swimsuit designer for California's Rose Marie Reid, finds that German girls today tend to be skinnier of hip than young Americans and Italians. This "generation of fashion models," as one approving editor calls it, averages 5 ft. 6 in. in the 14-25 age bracket, one inch taller than other European girls, and it boasts unbeatable vital statistics...
...climbs the income ladder, he gradually diversifies his holdings.' First come stocks, then real estate investments. When he reaches the top income bracket, a man moves heavily into tax-exempt bonds to avoid heavy federal income taxes; 70% of the $100,000-plus group owned bonds v. only 20% of the $25,000 group...