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Born in Osceola, Ark. (pop. 7,204), Wilson had a youth that was laced with adversity. His father died when he was nine months old, and his mother Ruby brought her infant to Memphis, where she took a job as a dental assistant at $11 a week. An only child, Wilson idolized his mother, who died three years ago. When she lost her job during the Depression, Wilson, who had held part-time jobs almost since he could walk, quit high school and went to work for good. He bought a $50 popcorn machine-nothing down, $1 a week...
Headaches, doctors realize, are symptoms rather than diseases. Toothaches, hangovers and simple hunger can cause headaches that can be cured by dental work, black coffee and food. Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery. Decongestants may help sinus headaches, while those caused by allergies can be prevented by identifying and avoiding the substance that brings on the allergic reaction, a task that most physicians concede is far easier in theory than in practice...
Benefits. Since 1960 the top salary for regular teachers has climbed from $9,100 to $ 16,950, plus such fringe benefits as dental treatment, college scholarships and day-care centers (Shanker's own salary has risen, too, from $7,500 to $50,000). So very few pedagogues oppose the merger between the UFT-dominated United Teachers of New York State and the New York State Teachers Association. This is just as well, since Shanker, in settling a union squabble once snapped: "I haven't got time for democracy...
...Orbach apartment that Gallo married Sina Essary, a dental assistant he had met eleven years ago, before he went to jail. He and his first wife Jeffie Lee were divorced a few months ago. Joey and Sina, whose young daughter opened in the Broadway play Voices last week, soon became a part of the theatergoing, nightclubbing celebrity set. Crazy Joe, the killer, had become Pal Joey, the hearty hood. That, too, did not go down well with various godfathers...
...small knickknack business and built a vast mining and smelting empire, Edmond Guggenheim helped supervise the family's copper holdings throughout the Western hemisphere for nearly half a century. For more than 30 years he also presided over the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim Foundation, which provided free dental care to the poor...