Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Don Tomas Garrido Canabal, 52, onetime Governor of Mexico's Tabasco State (1920-35); of cancer; in Los Angeles. As Governor, he issued rigid decrees against corsets and alcohol, outlawed tombstones, ordered priests to marry. Minister of Agriculture under Cardenas in 1935, he was shortly implicated in the machine-gunning of Tabascan students, who at tempted to return from Canabalistic deportation, subsequently exiled himself from Mexico...
...since ballot-box stuffing was general for all contestants, the poll did represent a rude cross section of New York City's Latin American opinion. And that opinion (with some 200,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants, New York is the biggest Latin city north of the Tropic of Cancer) is undoubtedly passionately informed...
...career of Nicholas Biddle that is responsible for the lack of judgment at the ballot boxes displayed by large sectors of the American public. It would have taken more than a knowledge of which Presidents have been assassinated to save American public opinion from the almost tragic cancer of isolationism that afflicted it. Teaching methods are made the issue by the Times report, with the result that the importance of emphasis is ignored. The stress on social implications that has resulted in the substitution of "social sciences" for straight history in recent years has required some sacrifice of the little...
...cancer was particularly interesting because one of the hottest theories in cancer research is the possible effect of raw egg white on the cancers. Egg white's avidin links up with biotin, part of the vitamin B complex essential for growth of both normal and cancerous tissues. Theory is that large amounts of avidin might "freeze" enough blood biotin to starve a cancer, possibly stop its growth...
...fantastic patient's condition ran contrary to this theory. Even when the hospital restored his egg and wine diet, in an effort to bring his rash into full flower again, his cancer progressed. One possible explanation: perhaps the bacteria of his urinary tract infection were making biotin, sending enough into his blood to cancel stupendous quantities of avidin and feed the cancer besides...