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...town dentist looks up during a trim at Johnny Perkins' barber shop: "Talk about niggers being human beings- we're human beings too. We're just as much a minority here as the niggers nationwide. But what do you do when you're whipped at the polls? You join 'em." Greene is one of the nation's poorest counties. Esmal Wilson, 53, a white auto mechanic, contends gloomily: "Hell, nobody's going to do business with niggers. They couldn't get any more industry in here than that dog over yonder...
...constantly mistaken for the help, or worse. Passing through the basement garage of his Chicago office building, one black journalist is often asked to park cars, even though he is wearing a business suit. When he putters around the yard of his house in suburban Scarsdale, a New York dentist is invariably asked by delivery men for the "madam." She's not at home? How about "the man of the house"? The "gardener" says, "Wait a minute," goes through the back door and emerges at the front, getting a little of his own back at the deliveryman...
...kinds of work: near our camp a brigade of cigar and cigarette workers and one made up of people from the Health Ministry were cutting. In all cane-cutting camps, all material necessities-food, lodging, clothing, recreational facilities, and a small medical clinic with both a doctor and a dentist in each camp-are provided completely free. This is true at all agricultural work places and in many factories also...
Evidence in Bones. As long ago as 1916, Dentist Fredrick S. McKay of Colorado Springs noted that many of his patients had curiously mottled teeth, but that they had developed few or no cavities. He later suggested the reason: the city's water contained more than two parts per million of fluorine salts. It was a logical if slow progression from that to the carefully controlled studies of the 1940s and the continuing campaign since then...
...degree whatsoever as recognized by him" -a definition unscientific enough to horrify formal psychotherapists. Hence the program tends to attract people who want to believe that emotional problems are as correctable as a toothache-a comparison frequently drawn by N.A. members. "You have to keep going back to the dentist if you want to take good care of your teeth," says Grover. No one "graduates" from N.A., he adds, any more than the churchgoer graduates from church...