Word: 1960s
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...covey of Presidents who shivered through the Nixon rites owed their days of glory in varying degrees to Richard Nixon, either for his help or his failure. Ronald Reagan, a Democrat until the early 1960s, recalls how his growing disenchantment with the party inspired him to go talk with Nixon. "I'd grown up a Democrat, but I told Nixon I've got to be a Republican," Reagan said. "But Nixon asked me to campaign for him as a Democrat, and I did until right at the end. Then I switched...
Karen Kubick, public affairs director at the hospital, confirmed yesterday that Fenton received outpatient care during the 1960s, but she could not specify the type of treatment he received...
...Researchers investigating the high incidence of breast cancer on New York's Long Island found that women who lived near chemical plants in the late 1960s have a 60% greater chance of developing breast cancer after menopause...
...conceptual revolution that is just now sweeping into the clinic began in the 1960s, when researchers started to realize that cancer is a disease of DNA, the master molecule that encodes the genetic script of life. One of DNA's most important jobs is to govern cell division, the process by which a cell makes a copy of itself and splits in two. Ordinarily, cell division is tightly regulated, but a cancer cell divides uncontrollably, pushing into surrounding tissue...
...Douglas, who is one of the group's co-founders) was ready to lead a new progressive era, reported a New York tabloid. Third Millennium's founders have even been compared to the leaders of students for a Democratic Society, which participated in the Social revolution of the 1960s. and Newsweek sent me to New York to report on this band of young visionaries...