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When a woman has had one breast removed for cancer, her risk of developing a malignancy in her remaining breast is only about 1% in each of the next ten years. The likelihood that she will have cancer simultaneously in both breasts is even less. Last week Margaretta ("Happy") Rockefeller found that the law of averages had discriminated most cruelly against her: only five weeks after undergoing a radical mastectomy for cancer in the left breast, she had her right breast removed by less drastic surgery to eliminate a minuscule cancer that had been present but undetected at the time...
...have been fortunate; early detection of her second cancerous growth greatly increased her chances for a long life. Discovery of the second malignancy would have been delayed-probably for many months-were it not for a technique developed by her surgeon, Dr. Jerome A. Urban, acting chief of the breast service at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Urban decided a dozen years ago that it might sometimes be wise during a mastectomy to take a sample of tissue (biopsy) from the corresponding position on the other breast and check that for the possibility of what doctors call...
...sensitivity of a clod. That's what we have in the White House now. An oaf and a clod-designate. His wife gets breast cancer and he comes out before the cameramen saying, "Wow, you guys aren't going to believe this..." Waving around family crises--it's both tacky and typical...
...next morning, exhausted from shocks, bruises and lack of sleep, I was hooded and hauled off again. Once more I recited the 23rd Psalm and again arrived before the interrogators inwardly at peace. I was made to stand, and electrodes were again placed on my breast and ear. Questions moved back to my arrival in Brazil in 1964 and all of my career as a missionary of the United Methodist Church, then focused mainly on my journalistic activities for TIME and the A.P. Between sessions I was again hung on the cell door. Except for about an hour when...
Alcoholic Despondency. Except for New York magazine's ever fastidious John Simon, aesthetic outrage alone rarely elicits such exacerbated responses. The truth is that Mert and Phil abrasively tweaks raw nerves. Mert (Estelle Parsons) is well into middle age and has recently had one cancerous breast removed. Only too conscious that her breasts were the chief attraction she exerted on her husband, she is sinking into a state of garrulous alcoholic despondency. She swigs continuously from a bottle, and her only other visible activity is carrying a plunger to a stopped-up toilet. That facility is overemployed, since Mert...