Word: cancer
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There were other upsets in Democratic senatorial primaries last week. One of the most spectacular came in Michigan, where the party was choosing a successor to retiring Michigan Democrat Philip A. Hart, 63, the stalwart liberal who is gravely ill with lymphatic cancer. Maverick Congressman Donald Riegle, 38, ignored the wishes of the kingmaking United Auto Workers and challenged favored State Secretary Richard Austin, 63, for the nomination. Riegle won, 44% to 29% A former Republican Congressman whose liberal policies earned him a place on Richard Nixon's enemies list, Riegle switched to the Democrats in 1973 and this...
When lung cancer killed Walt Elias Disney a decade ago, there were fears that the world of Disney would lose some of its wonder-and its profits. But before his own death in 1971, Roy Disney, who succeeded his younger brother, and a cadre of post-Walt executives had turned Walt Disney Productions into a thriving empire of fantasy. Today the company is bigger and richer than ever. Profits flow in from Disney's two successful theme parks, Disneyland in California and the magic kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, from film rentals and television, from re-releases...
Profit is today a fighting word. Profits are the life blood of the economic system, the magic elixir upon which progress and all good things ultimately depend. But one man's lifeblood is another man's cancer...
...hearings, Harvard scientists in favor of the research spoke of the ultimate benefits of experimenting with new combinations of DNA, including the development of a cure for cancer...
Died. Meyer ("Mickey") Cohen, 62, pint-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) onetime West Coast gang leader; of complications of stomach cancer; in Los Angeles. A Brooklyn-born boxer who was running his own mob in Cleveland at 19, Cohen went on to work in a Chicago gambling casino owned by the Capone syndicate, then turned to bookmaking in California. After Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel was shot in 1947, Cohen became the high-living kingpin of Los Angeles gangdom. He was sentenced to prison twice, both times on charges of income tax evasion. Cohen was released in 1972, partially paralyzed...