Word: haire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...halted on the high seas the next day by U.S. naval vessels but allowed to pass following only a "visual" inspection. On Oct. 28, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev officially informed the U.S. that the offending weapons in Cuba would be removed as soon as possible. Kennedy had won the hair-raising showdown...
Anyone opening a new savings account has long had his pick of desk lamps, hair dryers or blenders, but the East New York Savings Bank is showing up the purveyors of discount detritus for the pikers they are. Full-page newspaper ads offered depositors something more than "a tacky little toaster" in return for $160,000 left on deposit for eight years -an $84,000 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow II. When the Desert Empire Bank of Cathedral City, Calif., tried the same gimmick in 1977 in return for a $ 1 million six-year deposit, it failed to find even...
...reject the foreign material and invading bacteria. Says a 50-year-old real estate broker who underwent an implant: "Your entire scalp feels spongy, with a layer of pus underneath. The bleeding and itching drive you crazy. You wake up and find the pillow covered with blood." Natural hair may fall out too. Correcting the damage can take years. The fibers must be removed, and antibiotics taken to control infection. Some patients may require scalp removal and skin grafting...
...medically qualified skin specialists, but the trade is obviously lucrative. In 1978 Donald Underwood, an osteopath, is said by the New York State attorney general to have earned $1 million from his now shuttered Long Island clinics. Some operators are switching to a new ploy: offering to implant human hair fibers. But dermatologists warn that fibers collected from a number of people can provoke even more serious problems...
...These operations are quite different from legitimate hair transplants, which involve taking hair "plugs" from hirsute parts of the patient's body and planting them in the hairless regions of the scalp...