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...stopped to chat with Mrs. Margaret Pisapia of Silver Spring, Md., who told him: "You look wonderful." "I'm doing O.K.," he replied, "for an old man." When he returned to his third-floor room, he had enough energy left to sign 21 minor bills, then visited a dentist in the hospital to have a tooth filled...
...consults a score when conducting. He commits everything to memory, which in his case is a kind of built-in microfilm system that now encompasses more than a thousand compositions. Ormandy says he developed his powers of total recall as a child in his native Budapest. Father was a dentist who was determined that his son should be a great violinist. So while he drilled away on patients' teeth in the front room, he kept an ear cocked to be sure that young Jeno (Hungarian for Eugene) was grinding away on his violin in the rear...
...poverty of the Harlem woman who says, "I'm tired of 49? meat; I want some 89? meat just once." It is the poverty of people who have a refrigerator, assert their right to own a TV set, may genuinely need a car, should visit a dentist. Even if this poverty is not like any earlier poverty or the poverty of much of the rest of the world, it is worth declaring...
...pertinent facts, pro and con, on the matter. In their 786-page Fluorine Chemistry, Volume IV (Academic Press; $28), Dr. Harold C. Hodge and Dr. Frank A. Smith compile the important evidence that has been gathered since the effects of fluoride on teeth were first observed by Dentist Frederick S. McKay in Colorado Springs 50 years ago. Their findings...
Painting the Teeth. Almost one-third of the people of the U.S. get their water from wells or small private supplies, where fluoridation is not practical. As a substitute, considerable benefit can come from having a dentist paint children's teeth with stannous fluoride every three years. But this is no national solution, say Dr. Hodge and Dr. Smith, because there are not enough U.S. dentists (100,000) to do the whole job. As for adding fluorides to salt or food, the intakes of these are even more variable than the intake of water. There is not enough medical...