Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dana Hospital, to be built on Brookline Ave. near the Med School, will be part of the Sidney Farber Cancer Center, which includes the Redstone Laboratories and the Jimmy Fund Building. The Jimmy Fund is one of the major fund-raising organizations for the Farber center...
...Harvard Medical School will have a new teaching facility when the Charles A. Dana Cancer Hospital and Research Laboratory opens this spring...
April 19, 1973. Nixon and Ehrlichman discuss John Dean's meeting with Nixon on March 21,1973, in which Dean warned of "a cancer growing on the presidency" and Nixon approved paying money to silence Hunt. Dean is talking to the prosecutors...
...tiny role of the Duchess of Krakenthorp and turned what should have been a brief appearance into a runaway slapstick turn. Finally, some 3,552 emotional fans gave Soprano Beverly Sills an ovation for her courage and her performance. It was barely four weeks after major but successful cancer surgery, and Sills was making the first of five performances scheduled for the next two weeks. She was 40 Ibs. lighter and, except for her voice, clearly tired. She is an indomitable optimist, however. "I was lucky the cancer was contained," she said during the intermission. "Never in all the years...
Meantime, the Environmental Defense Fund, a public interest group of scientists and lawyers, was approaching the problem from a different angle. A research team compared statistics on the mortality rate of cancers of the urinary organs and gastrointestinal tract in 64 Louisiana parishes (counties). The study showed a "significant relationship" between the use of drinking water from the Mississippi and cancer deaths. The report also noted that dangerous chemicals had been identified in municipal drinking-water supplies in West Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Nebraska and Washington...