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...ratio of doctors to patients in Watts was 1 to 2,900," she said, "The infant-mortality rate was almost double the overall U.S. rate. Sixty-eight percent of the children I examined had something wrong with them. Ninety percent had never seen a dentist...
Afraid of the Dentist. Kanellopoulos' remarks, while by far the most significantly defiant to date, were not the most scathing. That honor was left to Helen Vlachos, 55, the acid-tongued Athens publisher who closed down her two newspapers to protest the junta-imposed censorship. In an interview with the Italian daily La Stampa, she was asked whether she was afraid of the consequences of her defiance. Replied Helen: "I'm more afraid of the dentist than I am of Colonel Papadopoulos." She then called the members of the ruling junta "simple people, a bit ignorant...
...year consultant to Grand Bahama's real estate developers. His son, Robert, an internationally famed yachtsman, also had a five-year consulting contract, at $15,000 annually. "I earned my fees," he testified last week, "advising on marine design, yacht purchases and bunkering facilities." Dr. Raymond Sawyer, a dentist and U.B.P. executive-council member, held a $12,000-a-year consultancy on health problems. "Of course," intoned Sir Stafford with a straight face, "these consultancies were not softeners or bribes...
...Rome, Bergman's role is to be "wholly and completely the mother. I buy their clothes; I go to the schoolteachers and talk about lessons and what they are weak in; I go to the dentist's with them-just like any mother...
...main channel to the hippie movement, and thus to such sentiments as "All you need is love," which is now the main Beatle theme. If the Beatles ever became drug bards ("Day Tripper" and so on), it may be his fault. Or not so much his fault as his dentist's, who one evening slipped some acid into the Beatle's after-dinner coffee, sending them on their first trip. At any rate, drugs are not likely to become a Beatle obsession because, as Harrison told the Los Angeles Free Press last week, "Acid is not the answer, definitely...