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...90th birthday was the best of all. Two weeks earlier, Princess Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene had awakened in her Washington apartment and suddenly seen the canopy on her bed, her chest of drawers, the pictures on the wall and the sunlight through the window-for the first time in ten years. The granddaughter of Ulysses S. Grant and former wife of the late Russian Prince Michael Can tacuzene, the princess had somewhat mysteriously regained, at least partially, the sight she lost after an automobile accident. Her doctor offered no explanation, but asked her: "Do you believe in miracles?" "Indeed...
Goalie Ron Wilson held the Bulldogs to only two goals in the first period, but Harvard's attack failed to dent the solid Yale defense...
...Dent in the Backlog. Putting fluorides to work on a test basis, the Navy has adopted a three-stage treatment. First, each patient is given a basin, a toothbrush, a small cup of pumice paste containing stannous fluoride, and a five-minute lecture on how to proceed. He brushes his teeth for ten minutes. Next, he is plopped into the dentist's chair. A technician spends three to five minutes air-drying his teeth and applying a 10% stannous fluoride solution. Third, the patient gets up to 15 minutes of instruction in how to make daily...
...keep adequate amounts of fluoride in the teeth after painting, the Navy settled on painting every year. The first treatment costs only 25? a man for materials; dental technicians are treating three or four times as many patients as before, and the Navy expects soon to make a big dent in its huge backlog of cavities, treating 1,000,000 patients a year at 48 preventive-dentistry centers. Says Rear Admiral Frank M. Kyes, chief of the Navy's dental services: "It now takes us less time to prevent cavities than to fill them...
...court order confiscating the entire press run of the France Dimanche issue; the court tongue-lashed the photographer for his "veritable aggression," and the newspaper for its "intolerable invasion of the private life of the Philipe family." Though the $8,000 in damages will probably not make an appreciable dent in France Dimanche's pocketbook, it certainly serves notice on the French press that the value of privacy is going...