Word: dentist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every fall, as delegates to the 82-nation U.N. General Assembly troop into the glass palace on Manhattan's East River, the world undergoes its equivalent of the annual visit to the dentist. Last week, as the Assembly's 14th session got into full swing, the patient's mouth was wide open and, amid plenty of hollering and yelping, virtually all of mankind's political cavities, abscesses and fillings were mercilessly probed...
...country is not being jeopardized." Hopefully, Ireland's Foreign Minister Frank Aiken revived the idea of a U.N. standing army in a world of general disarmament. This won him dutiful applause, but as a practical proposition, it had roughly the value of the perennial resolution, on leaving the dentist's chair, to brush one's teeth three times a day for ever after...
Landing in Miami after a voodoo-drummed idyl in Haiti with Omaha Dentist Miles Graham (real name: Marlon Brando), sultry Eurasian student Timy Van Nga (real identity: Actress France Nuyen) lost her temper at the airport when lensmen tried to snap the ill-disguised lovebirds (TIME, Sept. 28). After conking a photographer with her purse and punching his face, France abandoned the precarious world of Timy Van Nga to return to Broadway and her title role in The World of Suzie Wong...
Shocked university officials suspended Kappa Sigma from the campus, put all 49 members on probation. The house was shut down for good, the first such action in U.S.C. history. Said grieving Arthur L. Swanson, Dick's dentist brother: "Those boys are guilty of taking my brother's life...
...woman can teach something about love he never knew before"). She also tells women how to make themselves more attractive to men. The depressing formula: constant exercise, no fried foods or fats, daily massage with cocoa butter followed by a cold spray, and a visit to the dentist "at least once a year...