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...dessert will probably kill much of their appetite; they are not likely to ask for seconds on the main course. The suggestion that sweets should be eaten first has often been made in the past, says Dr. Raper, but the regimented menu remains. Even in his own home, the dentist cannot get dessert first unless he makes a point of asking his wife for it. As for restaurants: "It can be accomplished now and then, provided one exercises enough diplomacy to settle the Berlin dispute...
...Stickney Township, on the outskirts of Chicago, kids who never heard of Dentist Raper (see above) may soon be using his arguments to browbeat their parents into serving backward meals. For Stickney eighth-graders have just had a colorful demonstration of what sugar left in the mouth may mean...
...bidding of a dental-health educator, the kids chomped energetically on a wad of flavored wax. When the wax had done its job of stimulating a free flow of saliva, the dentist collected a saliva sample from each child and mixed it with a special reagent. Within a few minutes, the samples showed a variety of colors. These color changes, according to an inventive biochemist, Dr. Gustav W. Rapp of Chi cago's Loyola University, predict whether a child is likely to develop a lot of tooth cavities. The colors (from an enzyme in the saliva) will indicate...
Also, Isabel Canet, a marine zoologist formerly director of the Fisheries Research Center in Havana, Cubs; Selma T. Damon, a dentist and the wife of Albert Damon, associate professor of Epidemiology at the School of Public Health; and Mildred G. Goldberger, a mathematician who plans to study the teaching of elementary school mathematics...
...preflight program. In 1943 he took the Navy's option to join the Marine Corps, and won his gold wings and gold second lieutenant's bars. Then, resplendent in his dress blue uniform, he came back home to New Concord to marry Annie Castor, daughter of the town dentist, and his sweetheart ever since he could remember...