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...relaxed that he often catnaps for ten or 15 minutes before a race. Smith is called "Jet Gear" by rival sprinters-because of his huge stride (8 ft. 11 in.) and incredible acceleration. "Other sprinters reach their top speed at 75 yds, and then decelerate," says his coach, Lloyd ("Bud") Winter. "Tommie is still accelerating at the end of 100 or 220 yds. He can sustain a speed of 26 m.p.h...
When a tooth growing out from its bud in the jawbone gets trapped-either in the bone itself or between other teeth-dentists say that it is "impacted." The problem occurs most often with the four so-called wisdom teeth, or third molars, which generally erupt around the end of adolescence. And the catalogue of troubles that have been traced to impacted wisdom teeth is virtually endless. At one time or another, New York University's Dr. Irving Salman told the Greater New York Dental Meeting last week, they have been accused of causing everything from facial deformity...
...Bud") Wiser Jr., 45-year-old Annapolis and Harvard Business School graduate, to run the Northeast shop...
...salary with stock options, Bud Wiser has been going full throttle. He has already hired away 15 key executives from other airlines. "We are trying to be selective," he says wryly, "and not hit anyone too hard." He has added 700 new employees to take the strain off an understaffed system, revamped maintenance, scheduling and reservations. To point up the changes, Northeast is advertising its "Yellow-birds," a Raymond Loewy inspiration. Somewhat like Braniff planes, North-cast's aircraft now are white from nose tip back along the fuselage, slant into canary yellow on the after-belly as well...
...Died. Bud Powell, 41, modern jazz pianist, who along with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker brought about the turn from swing to bop in the 1940s, then had a series of mental breakdowns after which his phenomenal inventiveness deserted him, though not the percussive precision and inspired phrasing that influenced most pianists of the past two decades; of malnutrition, tuberculosis and alcoholism; in Brooklyn...