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...Winner. CBS President Frank Nicholas Stanton, 42, who spearheaded the CBS color fight, stands just under 6 ft. and weighs 175 Ibs. His expression is at once attentive and stolid; his strong jaw is often clamped firmly on a pipestem. A certain lack of facial animation, together with his carefully parted, yellow-blond hair, have led wags to call him "the Veronica Lake...
...field," he said. I laughed, because he was a foot shorter than I was. Then the boy hit me on the jaw and twice quickly on the side of the head. I stopped laughing. I jabbed once at his nose; he looked surprised and began to use both hands. It was very painful, and two St. Anthony's boys had to pull me away before I got too damaged and brought an early end to the war. As they led me off, one of them looked up and smiled patronizingly...
When we came to Amerigo's plot, Conti led the way through a hedge. There, in the middle of a small kitchen garden planted with cabbage, was a red stake marked 38. "This is where your land begins," explained Conti. Amerigo's jaw dropped. "But this garden?" he wondered. Conti answered: "It's included. Your land goes to the ditch down there. Takes in half that oak tree." Amerigo exclaimed: "The acorns from that tree will be enough to keep a pig. We will have sausage at home...
...Northwestern University's Cleft Lip and Palate Institute, Orthodontist Graber and other researchers emphasize that five-sixths of the upper jaw's growth is completed in the first five years of life, while the lower keeps on growing for another dozen years or more. When surgery is performed to close a cleft palate in an infant only one or two years old, Dr. Graber says, the growth of the upper jaw may be stunted, tooth buds are often destroyed, and normal growth of the lower jaw eventually produces a grotesque appearance...
...Graber's paper were sharply critical. Bad results from early operations, they argued, were uncommon, and happened because the surgeon was not as skillful as he should have been. Apparently it would take years-until many more children treated by Northwestern's method have reached jaw-growth maturity-for the results of the two systems to be compared, and the argument settled...