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...Arrayed against them were the District Dental Society, the trustees of the King County Medical Society and a formidable list of other organizations. Opponents of the plan argued that fluorides are dangerous poisons, and that even in smaller doses they cause unpleasantly mottled teeth. They conjured up the specter of Nazi science; human experimentation, they said, had been outlawed at Nürnberg. Furthermore, they asked, what could fluorides do to car batteries and radiators and to lawns...
...David K. Specter; Dunster; Harvard Yearbook; Graduate School of Design Student Council; Band; Outing Club; House tennis...
Graduation, for instance, assumes new importance, while the specter of General Hershey, once seen lurking behind every diploma, is forgotten. Alternate routes to New York and the relative merits of Ford convertibles occupy the time and thought formerly allotted bloody ridges and cabinet crises. Politics are lost in a profusion of baseball scoresheets, and the frantic maneuverings of vote-seekers eclipsed by candidates for the Hall of Fame...
...Gardner is no fluke. Though Hollywood's rulers, whose egos are as tender as a redhead's complexion, are understandably reluctant to admit it, the movies have had to take up arms against a sea of troubles. Recovered from the first shock but still haunted by the specter of TV, beset by mounting production costs, harried by a falling box office, Hollywood is also facing an unexpected shortage in its most vital commodity of all-the mysterious attraction that everybody recognizes but no one has ever .been able to label more accurately than glamor, or oomph...
...Europe's . . . progress ... is hobbled by a web of customs barriers interlaced with bilateral agreements, multilateral cartels, local shortages and economic monstrosities. How tragic! Free men, facing the specter of political bondage, are crippled by artificial bonds that they themselves have forged and they alone can loosen...