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Twenty years ago, just after the young artist had graduated from Juilliard, he was stricken by chronic internal bleeding that hospitalized him for three years. Dr. Pennington's treatment (plus the wholistic regime of diet and exercise she prescribed) saved Kochanski's life ...and he's followed her advice ever since. The pianist now works out for 45 minutes every day and—when he's at home in California—also swims, walks on the beach, and lifts weights.

"Daily exercise and careful diet are necessary to my concerts," Wladimir explains. "Truly great music exerts love and warmth ...and this can be accomplished only by a strong, happy individual with a sound and healthy body."— JM.

ROBERT NARA

Despite fierce opposition (which was detailed in the Plowboy Interview in MOTHER NO. 56), Michigan dentist Bob Nara persists in criticizing members of his profession for promoting reparative, rather than preventive, dentistry.

Dr. Nara's radical convictions have incurred the steady disapproval of the Michigan State Dental Association and Board of Dentistry. The authorities suspended Dr. Nara's license to practice for 15 months in 1978 and 1979, citing his habit of allowing paradental assistants to perform duties that he considered to be routine, and his advertisement for an "unrecognized specialty" (the preventive system he calls Oramedics) in the Yellow Pages of the Houghton, Michigan telephone directory. Nara is now facing yet another suspension—or perhaps even permanent revocation of his license ...Plus second-offense felony charges (for, placing the ad again) that could earn him a two-year prison sentence and a $5,000 fine. Yet the doctor refuses to give in, and he's currently attempting to secure hearings in state and federal appeals courts.

In his self-proclaimed role as crusader against the shortcomings of what he calls "organized dentistry", Bob Nara is determined to alert as many people as he can to his central belief ... the profession has been making a living by repairing the results of a disease they could have been curing all along."— JM.

IN BRIEF ...

Fans of HARRY CHAPIN (see Newsworthies in MOTHER NO. 55) and antihunger activists everywhere were saddened to learn of the ballad singer's death in a July 16th traffic accident on Long Island. As part of his concern about worldwide starvation, Chapin participated in scores of benefit concerts, cofounded World Hunger Year, and served on a Presidential Commission on malnutrition ... Among the people named to a Nutrition Hall of Fame established by the Center for Science in the Public Interest are FRANCES MOORS LAPPS (see Newsworthies in No. 69), RALPH NADER, GEORGE S. MCGOVERN, ADELLE DAVIS, and both J. I. and ROBERT RO DALE ... THOR HEYERDAHL has been adventuring again, and the sailor's new book, The Tigris Expedi tion (Doubleday, $17.95), chronicles his five-month voyage in a reed boat through the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf ...This fall will mark the opening of the Institute for Resource Management, a new graduate school of environmental studies initiated by ROBERT BEDFORD and jointly sponsored by the University of Idaho and Washington State University ... Labor leader CESAR CHAVEZ received the Vegetarian Ethic Award at "Action for Life", a national conference on vegetarianism and animal protection ... Former Secretary of the Interior CECIL ANDRUS was named Conservationist of the Year by the National Wildlife Federation, in honor of his work to insure passage of the historic Alaska Lands Act last year ... Congressman GEORGE BROWN (D-California) has proposed an amendment to the 1981 Farm Bill, calling for increased attention to organic farming and urging the full implementation of the recommendations of the USDA's Organic Task Force Report. —JM.

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