Word: orthodontist
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Odessa Grady Clay is a short, pillowy woman with freckled fawn skin and an expensive orthodontist. Cash never gave her a bit of trouble. She likes to talk about him as a baby. "The first thing he said was 'Gee-gee,' and that's what people in the family still call him: Gee. Later he said that Gee-gee stood for Golden Gloves, which he was going to win." Around Grand Avenue, Cassius was known as a prodigious eater, a pretty good rock fighter, and a deadeye marble shooter-when his parents...
...Court has permitted a taxpayer to deduct the cost of clarinet lessons for a child whose orthodontist recommended them, and a psychiatric patient got away with deducting automobile expenses because his psychiatrist prescribed driving as therapy. But the Court disallowed the cost of dancing lessons for a surgery patient, although a doctor recommended dancing for postoperative therapy. A taxpayer is permitted to deduct educational expenses if they enable him to keep his job, but not if they enable him to get a better job. A specialist in internal medicine, for example, was allowed to deduct the cost of psychoanalysis...
...impecunious orthodontist, Lopez Mateos was born in Atizapán de Zaragoza in Mexico state. While getting his law degree at night school, he worked his way teaching history and literature at a normal school. He started in politics in 1929 as a Socialist, switched easily to the government party when its chief offered to make him his secretary. He rose to Senator in 1946, managed Ruiz Cortines' campaign for the presidency...
...Orthodontist Spencer R. Atkinson of Pasadena, Calif, saw a fresh danger in TV: children sitting around by the hour, or lying on their bellies, with their chins cupped in their hands, may push their jaws out of shape...
...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...