Word: cothran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...estimates that since the 1970s the number of adults wearing braces has increased 50% to 75%. The A.A.O. claims that of the 4 million Americans currently wearing braces about 800,000 are over 18. (Adults who openly sport braces include Nancy Kissinger, 48, and Miss America of 1975, Shirley Cothran Barrett, 29. Barrett, in fact, appears fully wired in an ad the A.A.O. has been running in magazines to foster a positive image of grownup braces.) Says Spiro Chaconas, chairman of the department of orthodontics at the University of California, Los Angeles, Dental School: "If Eleanor Roosevelt were alive today...
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