Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inaugurated home care for the elderly with regular visits to the homebound by doctors, physical therapists and social workers. Since then, about 100 other hospitals across the country have set up similar programs. Three years ago, Montefiore branched out with an aftercare program, under which stroke, arthritis and cancer patients were brought to the hospital for follow-up treatments that doctors hope will eliminate the need for institutional care. Two years ago, the hospital helped set up a day-hospital program. It offers custodial care to those who have no one at home to watch over them during...
Died. Leroy Anderson, 66, pop composer-conductor; of lung cancer; in Woodbury, Conn. Anderson launched what became a long career in Tin Pan Alley with Sleigh Ride, in 1947, an instantly popular orchestral piece that established his relentlessly bouncy style. His 1952 Blue Tango, featuring 50 violins, became the first instrumental to top the record charts...
...Indians and early settlers of the American Southwest treasured the oil they pressed from the beans of the wild jojoba shrub. In Arizona and California the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah) oil was used as a nostrum for almost every ill: to ease childbirth, as a remedy for cancer, even as a laxative. Spanish colonists liked to rub the waxy, colorless oil on their mustaches. Last week a panel of National Research Council scientists reported that the jojoba bean may also be a panacea for the endangered sperm whale...
...doyenne of domestic comedy; from her husband of ten years, Actor-Singer Warde Donovan, 59; in Los Angeles. Ms. Diller's courthouse exit line: "We have a great settlement. I got the house and I gave him the gate." - ∙ Died. Marguerite Perey, 65, pioneering research chemist; of cancer; in Paris. At 20, Perey began working as a laboratory assistant to Marie Curie at the French Radium Institute. In 1939 she isolated francium, the 87th element in the periodic table. Cancer, probably caused by her work with radioactive elements, had already afflicted her when she was elected...
Died. Moe Howard, 78, last survivor of the original Three Stooges slapstick comedy team; of lung cancer; in Hollywood. His black bangs cropped as if his barber had used a chamber pot, Moe cheerfully assaulted colleagues Larry, Curly and Shemp through more than 200 1930s farces, whacking them with mallets, tweaking noses, kicking shins, and deftly delivering thousands of the two-fingered eye punches that became his trademark, and endeared him in the 1950s to the first generation of television children...