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...cause of cancer may be burned food, such as overdone, charcoal-broiled steaks. This startling suggestion came last week from one of the world's greatest authorities, the University of Chicago's Dr. Charles Brenton Huggins, 59, who has saved countless lives by developing effective treatments for prostate and breast cancers...
...Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship last week, wind and fog exacted taut performances from the 12-meter U.S. yachts in the second series of trials for the role of defender in September's battle for the America's Cup. But while Sceptre, the British challenger, nimbly outran its own trial horse (a U.S. 12-meter named Gleam), the U.S. contenders knocked one another off in a bewildering series of form reversals. At week's end only Easterner looked a loser. Still in the running: Skipper Briggs Cunningham's Columbia, Arthur Knapp Jr.'s Weatherly...
...spectator boats rocked in the mildly choppy seas off Newport's Brenton Reef Lightship one morning last week, four sleek twelve-meters began the first of a series of races. Eight weeks from now, the winner will be named to defend the America's Cup against British challenger Sceptre (TIME, July...
...Mushroom Cloud. The race began almost too calmly. A fickle Rhode Island westerly died to a breeze of only two knots as the yachts edged in toward the starting line between the forward mast of the Brenton Reef Lightship and a white flag on the committee boat. But in a few hours the wind freshened, and the field scudded off on the fastest Bermuda race in history...
...slender, shortish man with crew-cut grey hair stood up in Houston last week to tell about his work in an improbable and seemingly unpromising field: castration. When Charles Brenton Huggins, 51, had finished, officials and guests of the M.D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research applauded him lustily. For though he had belittled his success and attributed much of it to luck, Dr. Huggins had communicated the enthusiasm and restless energy with which he fights on one of the many fronts against cancer...