Word: scalp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would seem easy to pin down the preposterous utterances, but no; McCarthy is as hard to catch as a mist--a mist that carries lethal contagion." On Vice President Richard Nixon: "In politics this quiet young man is a killer....He is out for the kill and the scalp at any cost." On 1968 presidential candidate George Wallace: "the hillbilly Hitler." On Rep. Gerald Ford (R.-Mich) in 1966: "not overbright...
ANALYSTS SAY Sen. Joseph Timilty, whose challenge to White has become a painful exercise in redundancy, will run second to White in the preliminary. Timilty, who presided over President Carter's now-defunct National Commission of Neighborhoods and ran Carter through Pennsylvania, is after the mayor's scalp for the third time. He compares the White administration to a loaf of stale bread, believes in tax cuts, limiting condominium conversion along the lines of the Cambridge plan and the "neighborhood movement." What the neighborhood movement is, nobody, least of all the senator's staff, can put his finger on, although...
...head of hair, perhaps 20,000 desperate men and women have spent up to $6,000 apiece at so-called implant clinics. The hair is really thousands of colored strands of polyester or modacrylic fiber, usually in bunches of three to eight strands.* The fibers are threaded into the scalp by needle or forced in by air guns and sometimes anchored below the skin with knots...
Initial patient euphoria is short-lived. Within weeks, the fibers start breaking and falling out. Remaining shafts become centers of inflammation as the body tries to reject the foreign material and invading bacteria. Says a 50-year-old real estate broker who underwent an implant: "Your entire scalp feels spongy, with a layer of pus underneath. The bleeding and itching drive you crazy. You wake up and find the pillow covered with blood." Natural hair may fall out too. Correcting the damage can take years. The fibers must be removed, and antibiotics taken to control infection. Some patients may require...
...These operations are quite different from legitimate hair transplants, which involve taking hair "plugs" from hirsute parts of the patient's body and planting them in the hairless regions of the scalp...