Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laetrile, to my mind, has done as much as or more than all the billions we've poured into cancer research...
...people ride around." The outside world intruded when the schools were ordered integrated in 1970. Mrs. Powell, a teacher for 30 years, was one of the few whites to stay in the public school system, and her family stood behind her. Powell's father Joe, incurably ill with cancer, committed suicide two years ago. "Joe was so proud of Jody." Mrs. Powell told TIME'S Larry Woods. "One of the greatest disappointments of our lives is that he wasn't around to see Carter's victory...
Died. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 65, actress-singer daughter of Ethel Barrymore; of cancer; in Manhattan. Carrying the theatrical tradition of the House of Barrymore into the ninth generation, Colt made her acting debut at 18 performing alongside her mother in Scarlet Sister Mary. A lyric soprano, she later sang in concerts, nightclubs and with several opera companies, including the New York City Opera. She toured Europe with her one-woman revue of musical theater and returned to Broadway in Harold Prince's production of Follies...
Cria! is about a little girl named Ana (played by the haunting Ana Torrent) who has an innocent penchant for wandering into situations that she cannot fully comprehend. Having witnessed her mother's anguish before her death from cancer, Ana becomes convinced that her philandering father is somehow responsible. She decides to poison him and succeeds-or so she firmly believes. Thereafter, when an aunt who has been appointed guardian to her and her sisters seems to be straying out of line, Ana again resorts to the poison bottle. But Auntie lives. The "poison" turns...
...Moses household. It's not just that Carlo was a nurd. Sure, he had spent an entire summer doing medical research at some institute where they paid you per dozen rats you managed to infect with assorted communicable horrors, and said he actually enjoyed the stay at "cancer camp." (That story had something to do with it, of course. Pre-med fever ran as high in Prescott as in any other freshman dorm, and even the most casually ambitious protosurgeon could develop a hatred for someone who seemed more at home in a laboratory than the Bunsen burners.) More than...