Word: breast
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NCAA QUALIFYING PERFORMANCES: Harvard--Hackett 200 free; Princeton--Medley Relay; Saltzman, 200 free; Specht, 100 and 200 fly; Christensen. 200 breast...
...more hazardous to men. No longer. In a 400-page report to Congress last week, Surgeon General Julius Richmond said that women face the same dangers in smoking as men. Indeed, lung cancer deaths among women are rising so rapidly that by 1983 the smoking-related disease should overtake breast cancer as the leading cancer killer of U.S. women. The reason, says Richmond, is that so many women picked up the habit during and after World War II, a full 25 years after men did; and lung cancer often takes that long to develop...
...barefoot local fighters, clad in ragged shirts and frayed pants, clutching worn, dusty AK-47 machine guns. Others were elite commandos, wearing crisp camouflage fatigues, polished combat boots and leather holsters, bandoleers of machine-gun bullets slung over their shoulders. A few even sported gleaming Soviet medals on their breast. Startled whites stared in anxious silence or menacingly shook their fists as they passed by. But in the villages and urban townships, thousands of Rhodesian blacks gleefully hailed their return with an exultant chant: "Zimbabwe, we love...
...rose 28.5% during the '70s (vs. only a little more, 30%, during the booming '60s). The wealth and variety of things they could and would buy were a wonderment: boats, Winnebagos, hair transplants, facelifts, sensitivity training, hot tubs, snowmobiles, automatic garage doors, video-tape recorders, sound systems, breast implants, tennis ball servers, openly sold pornography targeted to the most elaborate perversions. If an underclass was being left behind in the South Bronx (and the fire in the civil rights movement guttered out), most American consumers lived in a world of far greater opulence, variety and mobility than...