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...approached in the sordid lounge of the famed Alcron Hotel by a portly, fortyish fellow who sported a handsome toothbrush mustache and a button-down Oxford-cloth shirt. He plumped himself down in an overstuffed armchair next to me. After ordering scotch with water "but no ice," he introduced himself as "Roger Smith, a professor of social sciences." He noted that he was an American scholar studying the aftereffects of the "Prague Spring" and the Soviet invasion. With a heavy Slavic accent, he lapsed for several minutes into part sociological jargon, part hilariously outdated American slang, last heard...
Encouraging Results. Many dentists are skeptical about the new technique, and no member of the Denver team is willing to claim that the operation is always successful. But in carefully selected patients who remain faithful and skillful with the toothbrush, the results of the operation are encouraging. Of 182 implants performed on 52 people over a five-year period, 104 produced new bone up to 4 mm. (one-sixth of an inch) high. One resulted in a gain that can only be called spectacular. Before the operation, a 40-year-old housewife had infection and serious bone loss. Within...
...There is confusion over the precise sequence of events, but before order was restored Jackson was dead. So were Guards DeLeon, Paul Krasenes and Jere Graham, and two inmates, John Lynn and Ronald Kane. The throats of all five had been slashed with a razor blade imbedded in a toothbrush handle, and two of the guards had been shot. Four of the bodies were piled into Jackson's cell, perhaps saving the life of a wounded guard who was covered by the corpses. Jackson and another prisoner had dashed from the Adjustment Center, sprinted across an open courtyard toward...
...hair was always neatly combed, or alternatively, as bristly as a fresh toothbrush. He kept his elbows off the table at meals, his speech was a crisp cadence of "yes, sir" or "no, ma'am," and on occasion he even helped old ladies across the street. He was, in short, the ideal son for many a parent: a cadet turned out by one of the nation's once flourishing military schools. Today, though, many of the academies are battling for survival. They have been ambushed, they say, by the recession, the permissiveness of modern parents, and public irascibility...
...farm family in the Italian Tyrol. Mary's first memory of her Tattile, as her foster parents called Pound, is of a pair of shiny shoes she was not allowed to touch. On another visit, alarmed at her farm-girl fingernails and unbrushed teeth, Tattile bought her a toothbrush and personally gave her a manicure. Mamile was more distant, "an incomprehensible entity with a grudge . . . as though I were permanently doing her wrong...