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...temporary and involuntary inmate of the Imam's palace, British-born Rita Nasir, last week described how the Imam punishes a recalcitrant wife or concubine caught in such offenses as smoking. She must kneel in front of the throne while the Imam's dentist yanks out several of her teeth for each offense...
...portentously into living rooms and assured viewers that all manner of products-patent medicines and dentifrices, cosmetics, drugs, and even cigarettes-are exactly what the doctor ordered. "For my patients, I recommend . . ." says one white-smocked huckster. As most viewers know but some do not, a genuine doctor or dentist is highly unlikely to risk his professional standing by engaging in such blatant commercialism. In perennial attacks on the phony pitchmen, the American Medical Association had long complained of these crass abuses. Last year the National Association of Broadcasters ordered that actors could go on impersonating scientific types only...
...American woman "must do credit to her husband's taste in 'wife choosing.' She is proving herself in a completely visible way, and she finds the idea frightening." Concludes Kroehler: "The American consumer approaches the purchase of furniture much as she approaches a visit to the dentist. She must go sooner or later and will probably feel better afterward, but it is such an agonizing experience that maybe it could be put off for a few weeks, a month or even a year...
...show that the All-American smile can become oppressive, he recalls a dentist whose nurses made him feel that "dying in the midst of these happy smiles and the angel wings of these white, immaculate uniforms would be a pure pleasure, a moment of no consequence . . . I left this dentist, in order to protect within my mind the Christian idea of death...
...help prove Alaska's ability to stand alone, confers with Washington and territorial officials, studies his mail, e.g., "We the undersigned students have been recently examined by Dr. Brownlee and 60 having been found with defective teeth, do humbly petition our Governor, Mike Stepovich, to send us a dentist...