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Skull & Collarbone. Working for seven months on hands and knees, their eyes just a few inches from the ground, Leakey, his wife and his son sifted the yellow earth and painstakingly uncovered bones, using camel's hair brushes and dental picks to prevent them from breaking. They found remains of two humans-a child thought to be about eleven and an adult, both of undetermined sex. From the child, there were skull fragments, a jawbone, bones from a hand and foot and a collarbone. Left from the ancient adult were some teeth, skull fragments and a collarbone...
Died. Henry Baker, 54, slight, mild-mannered onetime dental technician and professional burglar whose 26-year career was capped in January 1950, when he and ten teammates smoothly robbed the Brink's armored car service office in Boston's old North End of $2,775,395 for the largest haul in U.S. history, went to jail for life with seven others in 1956; of bronchial pneumonia; in a Norfolk (Mass.) prison hospital...
...calls for an increase in social security taxes (probable first year total: $1.5 billion) to pay for hospital, nursing-home and outpatient service for 14.2 million persons 65 years of age and older. He also recommended federal assistance for construction of nursing homes, and Government scholarships for medical and dental students. At his press conference he said that the Surgeon General would establish a new Child Health Center to specialize in the study of mental retardation...
...million Americans who have had heart attacks or strokes caused by blood clots now take anti-clotting drugs regularly to cut down the danger of recurrences. But their blood takes so much longer to clot that dental and other surgeons are confronted with a dilemma: Should they keep a patient on the anticoagulant drug during an operation and run the risk of severe (perhaps fatal) bleeding, or should they take him off the drug for a few days and run the risk of clotting in an artery of the heart or brain? Such authorities as the New England Journal...
This week, with interprofessional cooperation, the Journals of the American Medical Association and American Dental Association printed the same article by two Manhattan specialists who say that "playing it safe" is the most dangerous thing a surgeon can do. Dr. (of dental surgery) Stanley J. Behrman and Dr. (of medicine) Irving S. Wright, both of New York Hospital, have combed the reports of other practitioners and added a detailed study on 40 of their own patients. Their conclusion: "The danger of clotting without the drug is greater than the danger of bleeding with the drug...