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...members of Harvard's Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) include the headmaster of a Boston high school, an applied mechanics and biology professor who moonlights as a novelist, and students from the Divinity and Dental schools, the University announced yesterday...
...tenement, he immigrated to the U.S. when he was six and later, like his father, went to work in a Detroit automobile plant. During the strong union years, Fraser helped win extensive benefits for his members. He won early-retirement pay for auto-workers in 1964 and safety and dental-care programs in 1973. Says a senior auto company official: "Fraser is a very bright, shrewd guy with a pretty good feel for his constituency...
Shimko should talk to Dick Heilman, 52, who went to work at Weirton Steel in 1948. Heilman would hate to forgo any of the perks, among them free dental care and double pay for overtime, let alone lose 32% of his $29,000 pipefitter's salary. But, he says, "it's different when you're working for yourself. The minute it was announced that we were going to buy the plant, I noticed people in my section working longer and taking shorter breaks. There's a lot we can do without...
...acceptance of adult braces must go to the invisible, or lingual, appliance, which offers an alternative to people who cannot face the world with a "tin grin." It was invented by Craven Kurz, 39, a Beverly Hills, Calif, orthodontist who once was a faculty member of UCLA Dental School. Some of Kurz's patients, among them actors, announcers and even Playboy Bunnies, had a professional investment in their smiles. "They were in a Catch-22 situation," explains Kurz. "They needed to have their teeth straightened, but they couldn't use conventional braces-it would be disastrous for their...
...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...