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Chilled by the icy winter air that sweeps over from Mongolia, Peking last week solemnly mourned the passing of Premier Chou Enlai. The ceremonies began in the hospital where Chou died of cancer at age 77 on Jan. 8. For two days his body lay in state, draped in the red flag of the Chinese Communist Party, while high officials, including Chou's wife Teng Yingchao and First Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-ping, Chou's almost certain successor (TIME cover, Jan. 19), paid their last respects. Also among the mourners were some 10,000 selected "representatives...
...past six years the number of deaths from heart disease in the 55-to-64-year age bracket declined 15%. But the group experienced a 4% rise in cancer deaths. In addition, there has been an increase in respiratory diseases, kidney and liver ailments and, particularly among the young, venereal disease...
Free Expertise. For the first two years, Balthazar and his wife-who has since died of cancer-spent $30,000 of their own money to keep the clinic going. Now he has reluctantly agreed to a fund drive in Aurora to help meet expenses. Other help has come forward...
...doctors affiliated with the Harvard School of Public Health will publish within the next few months a study probing a possible link between estrogens and breast cancer in women, one of the doctors involved in the study said yesterday...
Died. John Aloysius Costello, 84, twice Prime Minister of Ireland and former leader of the conservative Fine Gael party; of cancer; in Dublin. After his surprise victory in 1948 over his longtime rival, Fianna Fail Leader Eamon de Valera, Costello quipped, "I feel rotten. Last Saturday I was a free man." But he energetically pursued his task, breaking Ireland's final constitutional link to Britain with the repeal of the External Relations Act. Costello lost the prime ministership to De Valera in 1951, won it back in 1954, lost it again in 1957 and quit politics...