Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...witness to the agony of cancer, I am bewildered that Laetrile is banned [June 20]. Can it not be administered in conjunction with our presently prescribed treatments? What harm is one more pellet in our already shotgun approach to curing cancer...
...medical profession and the results of several independent studies, all of which indicate that the drug is at best useless. Instead they put their faith in the word of their aunt's best friend's neighbor, who is reported to have been "cured of terminal cancer" by the drug...
...Cancer of Poverty. The fight will center around the familiar Medicaid program, which is jointly financed by the states and the Federal Government and needs the approval of both levels to work. Medicaid is the main way for welfare recipients to get safe abortions in the U.S.; it accounts for nearly a third of the 1 million or so operations performed annually. The court's ruling is already being hailed as a great victory for the forces determined to move Medicaid out of the abortion business. It removes any constitutional cloud over the decision of 15 states to deny...
...reminiscent of 'Let them eat cake.'" Departing from Chief Justice Warren Burger, his "Minnesota twin," Blackmun roundly scolded his colleagues: "There is another world 'out there,' the existence of which the court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize. And so the cancer of poverty will continue to grow." Justice Thurgood Marshall charged that the court's decision would "brutally coerce poor women to bear children," and said that he was "appalled at the ethical bankruptcy of those who preach a 'right to life' that means a bare existence...
...first rocket-pressurized with a bicycle pump and launched from a local dump-failed to fly. Some of his later models flew only too well, taking off from sites in Germany and occupied Holland to impact on London with horrifying effect. But if Wernher von Braun, who died of cancer last week at 65, is remembered by future generations, it will probably be for his postwar achievements. As one of the most valuable war trophies carried home by the U.S., he headed the team that developed the Jupiter C rocket that put the U.S. into the space race by launching...