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...broad, cobblestone boulevard stands a cluster of trim modern apartments; at the other rises a glass-and-steel office building. In between lies "the Raper"-Europe's greatest and gaudiest fleshpot. The Reeperbahn of Hamburg's Sankt Pauli district strings more sin along its garishly lighted main drag and crooked side streets than ten Tijuanas or 16 Sohos...
Other Harvard Professors backing McCormack's candidacy include, Professors Herbert Dieckmann, Stanley Cobb, Serge Chermayeff, Wiktor Weintraub, John R. Raper, and Bernard Budiansky. Two other Harvard academicians for the Massachusetts Attorney General are Nicholas Wahl, Assistant Professor of Government, and Benjamin W. Labaree, Assistant Professor of History...
...youngster who wants to start his supper with ice cream and cookies, and leave the meat and potatoes until last, usually accomplishes nothing except upset his mother's appetite. But the kid is right and his mother is wrong, says Dental Surgeon Howard R. Raper of Albuquerque. Sweets eaten at the beginning of the meal leave little sugar in the mouth, because later courses scour it away. And sugar remaining in mouth crevices promotes tooth decay...
...weight-conscious adults, there is an added advantage to reversing the customary order of courses, says Dr. Raper in Dental Survey. People who begin their meals with dessert will probably kill much of their appetite; they are not likely to ask for seconds on the main course. The suggestion that sweets should be eaten first has often been made in the past, says Dr. Raper, but the regimented menu remains. Even in his own home, the dentist cannot get dessert first unless he makes a point of asking his wife for it. As for restaurants: "It can be accomplished...
...Stickney Township, on the outskirts of Chicago, kids who never heard of Dentist Raper (see above) may soon be using his arguments to browbeat their parents into serving backward meals. For Stickney eighth-graders have just had a colorful demonstration of what sugar left in the mouth may mean...