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...question mark concerning Hatcher, however, is his shoulder. He sat out half a dozen games in Albuquerque because of an ailment variously diagnosed as a pulled muscle, torn ligaments and that most dreaded of all ballplayer ailments, a torn rotator cuff. The results of a midsummer examination by the Dodger team physician have not been publicized, but Hatcher did play 40 games in L.A. after his promotion, which may indicate it has healed...
...Steve McQueen, 50, cool, rugged star of action films (The Great Escape, Bullitt, Papillon); of a rare form of chest cancer; in Los Angeles. McQueen, who was married for the third time in January, to Model Barbara Minty, 26, had for months denied rumors of the ailment. Last week he confirmed that doctors had told him in April he was suffering from mesothelioma, a cancer usually regarded as incurable. Since then, he added, a regimen of treatment, including oil baths, vitamins and "positive thinking," had "extraordinarily" improved his condition. Said McQueen: "The reason I denied that I had cancer...
...trouble with the other. Tara, his daughter, died in 1975 of a kidney cancer when she was nine months old. A 16-year-old neighbor lost a kidney to cancer; another neighbor is on dialysis for kidney problems; a third also has a kidney ailment. No scientific link has been established between the chemicals and the illnesses, but, McCarthy says, "you can't tell me that all our kidney problems and the poisons in our water aren't connected...
...origin of the disease remains unknown. Since brothers and sisters of the victims almost never become ill, the ailment does not appear to be contagious. Says Kawasaki: "It could be a virus or some other microorganism. Because of the preponderance of cases among Japanese, it may have some ethnic and hereditary cause triggered by some new factor in the environment...