Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading counterblasting outfits, GASP (for Group Against Smokers' Pollution) and ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), as well as such organizations as the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, have had some impressive successes: largely as the result of their campaigns, 31 states and scores of cities in the U.S. have passed a wide range of laws that prohibit smoking in places as varied as elevators, museums, hospitals, theaters, stores, buses and subways. Now, however, the antismokers seem bent on controlling all public "breathing space." In offices and waiting rooms, desk plaques admonish...
...founder, Minneapolis Tribune Columnist Will Jones, explains: "The whole idea is that anyone who even ventures to smoke in the presence of another person is a slob. If someone smokes and gets cancer, we say, 'Good, there goes another smoker.'" While many tobaccophobes maintain that their aim is to "educate" smokers, they have not in the past been noticeably successful-as witness a turn-of-the-century campaign to censor a nursery rhyme because Old King Cole "called for his pipe." In a fit of moral fervor, the town fathers in Longboat...
...Lives head writer, takes home $250,000, plus $35,000 just for "thinking creatively." The two senior writers under her make up to $100,000 each. Bell is probably even richer than Agnes Nixon, the writer who has welded Phillips' home truths to such trendy themes as cervical cancer, racial prejudice and drug addiction. Nixon has at one time or another written almost every soap and created two: One Life to Live and All My Children, the thinking man's soap that has a 30% male audience. She is the soaps' crusader: All My Children went to Viet...
...used by Bell on The Young and the Restless. When Jennifer Brooks went off with a lover, she went out of focus. Says Bell: "I knew I had to pull back. How more dramatically than to put her on center stage?" Jennifer left her lover and got breast cancer...
...Tilly Losch, seventyish, prima ballerina of the 1920s and '30s, whose supple, fluid movements enchanted audiences of the Vienna State Ballet until she began a second career that included musicals with the Astaires and roles in such movies as The Good Earth and The Garden of Allah; of cancer; in Manhattan...