Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after he emerged from the operating room following six hours of surgery at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center last week, Hubert Humphrey asked his wife, "Muriel, how are the polls corning out in Minnesota?" That joshing question by a Senator virtually assured of re-election told as much about his condition as his doctors' optimistic prognosis. Though a cancerous bladder had just been removed, the 65-year-old former Vice President had lost none of his spirit, loquaciousness and will to survive-physically or politically...
Probably 30,000 Americans will find out this year that they have cancer of the bladder, a disease that strikes three times as many men as women. But if it is caught early enough-as it apparently was in Humphrey's case-the odds of beating it are better than even. Convinced that he had removed the entire tumor, a walnut-size growth at the base of the bladder, Humphrey's surgeon, Dr. Willet F. Whitmore, said confidently, "As far as we're concerned, the Senator is cured...
Married. Clarence M. Kelley, 64, FBI director, and Shirley Dyckes, fortyish, a former school teacher and nun; in Maggie Valley, N.C. Kelley's first wife died of cancer last November...
Ultimate Underdog. Supporters of the bill included the California Medical Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and senior citizens' groups. The bill's sponsor, Democrat Barry Keene, who saw two close friends die slowly and painfully of cancer, says it speaks for the ultimate underdog-those terminally ill "who have no hope, are helpless and for psychological reasons have been isolated." He is urging other states to follow California's example. In fact, there have already been attempts to pass similar bills in 17 other states...
Those in favor of this recombinant DNA research emphasize its potential benefits including the ability for plants to fix nitrogen, the potential for finding out more about cancer cells and the development of cheaper ways to make insulin. They claim that the review board should recommend that the Cambridge City Council lift its ban on the research enacted this summer and allow the work to be done under federal guidelines released earlier this year...