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Harelip Repairs. Soon Millard was operating on cleft-lip youngsters from all over Korea, often in freezing temperatures, with no electric power and an assistant holding a flashlight. The Millard simplified technique produced a more natural appearance than others previously used for unilateral cleft lip; it was so successful that after Millard reported his results, it was widely adopted and now accounts for a major proportion of all one-side harelip repairs...
...alone. That they develop early in fetal life is clear, but beyond that no one knows the exact cause. It may be a genetic defect, the result of maternal malnutrition or infection, drugs, or a combination of these. Whatever the cause, as fetal tissues grow and form the lips, mouth and palate, something inhibits normal development. The result is a twisted, often grotesque distortion of the nose and a gaping cleft in the upper lip, and sometimes the palate...
...compiled it in a large volume: Cleft Craft (Little, Brown), which weighs 7 Ibs. and lists at $85. Even with that fiscal bite, Millard expects to lose money: his 10% royalty will not cover the original costs of research and illustration. Volume II, on bilateral and rare cleft-lip deformities, is already at the publisher's. Millard is also at work on alveolar and palatal deformities for Volume...
...hours of Olympic coverage on television, it should be now: the only true amateurs at the Games were the Olympic Committee and the horses. All the rest were hamburger salesmen. Given the politics and economics that ride on the Games, it is not surprising that amateurism gets the lip service and professionalism the nod. Russia and its bloc allies have spent millions on a Marxian alchemy that turns young muscle into gold medals. America "does it my way" with a flexible alliance of Government blessings, publicity-minded colleges, eager athletes and free enterprise...
...Shasta Dam and rendered its spillway with a blue geometrical clarity; Richard Estes produced a view taken near Philadelphia's Independence Square, B&O; the Rockies were full of photorealists in National Park Service Jeeps, and one intrepid soul, Vincent Arcilesi, tethered his easel to the windy lip of the Grand Canyon to record on the spot its labyrinthine wrinkles. The results-78 paintings, first seen at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C. -go on view at the Wadsworth Athenaeum in Hartford, Conn., this July 4th under the title America 1976, and the show will tour U.S. museums...