Word: breast
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When doctors discovered last March that the slight hardening in the right breast of Eugenie Blaschko was a malignancy and that the cancer had spread to adjoining lymph nodes, they urged her to undergo a mastectomy. But Blaschko, 56, an exercise buff who swims year round in the California surf near her Long Beach home, adamantly refused to let surgeons remove the breast. Says she: "I decided I'd rather live a few years less and keep what I have...
Instead of a mastectomy, Blaschko opted for interstitial radiation therapy -the temporary implanting of tiny bits of radioactive isotopes in and around the malignant tissue. She has had no reason to regret her decision; the lump in her breast has receded, the cancer in her lymph nodes has apparently been eradicated, and she feels so well that she has taken up cycling along with her daily swimming...
...There were astonishing tales of survival," reported TIME Correspondent David Aikman from Bucharest. "One woman breast-fed her baby while trapped for 80 hours, only to lose it at the moment of rescue from under tons of debris. A stunt man climbed precariously into a totally demolished building to look for survivors-but not until he had told bystanders that he was absolving them from responsibility for whatever calamity might befall him in the search...
Islands in the Stream, based on Hemingway's posthumous 1970 novel, is more serious. It is an attempt to capture the elusive strains of tenderness and generosity that could inform Hemingway's writing when he stopped beating his breast. But except for George C. Scott in the leading role, it attempts to do this without anything approaching Hemingway's gifts, tarnished and erratic though they were toward the last. It remains an attempt-earnest and labored. After watching it, one is tempted to say: Come back, Howard Hawks...
...extent with other health insurance plans. To remain solvent it can provide medical coverage only in those areas it can afford, or it can raise its rates and risk losing business to competing health plans. Granted, it is not clear that Blue Shield's decision to limit coverage for breast reconstruction was based solely on economics. But if that were the case, it would merely illustrate the fact that the social utility of programs like Blue Cross-Blue Shield is limited by the system under which they are organized--capitalism--and not necessarily by the personal prejudices or greediness...