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...already available for high-speed painless drilling, were demonstrated to Greater New York dentists as a means of cleaning the teeth. At 26,000 vibrations per second, a blunt, smooth tip on the instrument dislodges accumulations of calculus (tartar), including those below the gumline, where they do the most harm, while a continuous fine jet of lukewarm water washes the debris away. Advantages: to the dentist, speed; to the patient, gentleness, as compared with sharp scrapers, and reduced danger of injury to the teeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

Turkey had proved impressive. It had clearly shown that it meant business, but no harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Syrian Aftermath | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...woman. It walked like a dog and it sat like a dog. Its head was like a human, but it was covered with a lion skin. I was not afraid of it because Muhandi, the sorcerer, told me that it was a soft lion and would not harm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TANGANYIKA: Murder by Lion | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...Story begins when Esther Costello, an eight-year-old Irish girl, finds a cache of grenades in a ruined farmhouse and accidentally detonates them, killing her mother. The explosion does the girl no actual physical harm, but the shock leaves her deaf, dumb and blind. Five years later, an American woman (Joan Crawford) with plenty of money and nothing to do-she has recently walked out on her unfaithful husband (Rossano Brazzi) -takes the child (Heather Sears) on maternal impulse, and with the help of some therapists teaches her to hear, speak and see with her hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 4, 1957 | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

Among the morass of politically-minded second lieutenants in the White House, the addition of a responsible scientist to the corps would do the nation no harm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Secretary of Science | 10/24/1957 | See Source »

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