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...wisdom teeth and a few front teeth extracted from patients needing whole dentures are tagged for blood type and Rh factor, then preserved indefinitely in a deep-frozen tooth bank. When a tooth is transplanted, it is first held in place by a blood clot in a carefully made socket in the recipient's jaw. Discomfort usually passes off in about 18 hours, and the tooth's tiny blood vessels establish links with the circulation in its new mouth. It can never ache in the ordinary sense, because there is no nerve connection. After about two weeks...
...week Kentucky's Democratic Congressman Frank Chelf wrote to Syngman Rhee, reminding him of the U.S. economic aid to Korea. Said Chelf, referring to the anti-American feeling in Asia: "That's not biting the hand that feeds; it is chewing the arm halfway out of the socket...
...question, the price he paid a year ago for a similar Francia. Koester lined up his own art experts, including one who noted: "Your picture shows the fine crisp craquelure [cracks in the varnish] characteristic of many Renaissance paintings," and "the anatomy, e.g., of the Virgin's eye socket ... is better understood and more determinedly modeled." When the British press turned the dispute into a guessing game, the National Gallery decided it was time to put its Francia through a threefold lab test: Xray, infra-red and microscopic analysis...
...machine is a small, simple box, which weights about 13 pounds, and will run on electricity from a wall current, storage battery, or even the socket for a cigarette lighter...
...Sheree North, a modern-day cootch dancer who made a big hit in Broadway's Hazel Flagg (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), and who has been described as having a "ball-and-socket pelvis," learned from a federal court m Los Angeles that two of her early films (now popular in the stag-party circuit) were not, as the Post Office suggested, "obscene, lewd and lascivious." Said Judge Ernest A. Tolin: "To say the films (How to Be an Exotic Dancer, The Waste-Basket Blues) have no reference to sex would be naive in the ultimate . The movements...