Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Theosophist Kenneth Buzby predicted that war will become a thing of the past, that cancer will be cured and pollution overcome. But most prophets were decidedly gloomier. Several foresaw an end of the American presidency, perhaps by the year 2025. Tarot Card Reader Johanna Okovic predicted an earthquake in New York City in 1978 and a war between 2011 and 2016. Astrologer Leah O'Leary, Michael's wife, forecast a "naval conflict" in 1979, floods on both the East and West coasts and a "nuclear mishap...
Kelley's explanation sounds valid enough. He said that the valances at his Bethesda apartment had been installed by exhibit-section craftsmen without his knowledge. According to an FBI source, Kelley's wife, who died of cancer last November, had asked Kelley in 1973 to get the valances. Preoccupied, Kelley told his driver, Agent Thomas Moten, to take care of the matter. Having served on Hoover's personal staff, Moten did as he had done in the past: asked the exhibit section to help out. When Kelley asked Moten how much the valances cost, the chauffeur replied...
...mutants against which humans or other life have no natural defenses. Indeed, some scientists see in gene synthesis enormous potential for good. It could, for example, eventually be used to replace defective genes in ailing humans-in hemophiliacs, say. It may also bring new understanding-and possibly control-of cancer by explaining why the genes suddenly order the rampages of cell growth characteristic of the killer disease...
Until now, the 270,000 participants in the demonstration project-a joint effort of the National Cancer Institute and the American Cancer Society-automatically received annual mammograms, along with a manual examination of the breasts and thermograms (tumor-detecting heat pictures). But under the new policy, mammograms will be restricted, until further studies are completed, to women 50 and above-an age group known to have profited from them-and others who have a greater than ordinary risk of breast cancer: women who have a family history of the disease, have lumps or pains in their chests or have reached...
...case of younger, totally symptom-free women, says Dr. Diane Fink, NCI's director of cancer control and rehabilitation, "the whole question will have to be looked at on an individual basis by the woman and her physician...