Word: cancer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
DIED. Blue Mitchell, 49, lyrical jazz trumpeter who performed and recorded with Horace Silver's combo for six years (High Heeled Sneakers) and most recently with his own Blue Mitchell-Harold Land Quintet (Smooth as the Wind); of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Congress refused to give him standby authority to impose gasoline rationing, he angrily accused his opponents of having "apparently put their heads in the sand." Just the day before his meeting with Brown, Carter told 200 business leaders at the White House that the energy crisis "festers like a cancer, sapping away the basic strength of our nation...
During the eleven-week trial, the manner of Silkwood's death was not an issue. The case centered on how she had become so poisoned by plutonium that she was, in the words of one expert witness, "married to lung cancer." Lawyers for both Silkwood and the corporation agreed that the young woman's apartment had been contaminated by plutonium from the plant, which has since been closed. The company contended that she had carried the metal out of the plant in small quantities and had, either intentionally or accidentally, poisoned herself. Why? "Maybe she was simply trying...
DIED. Boris Chaliapin, 74, Russian-born artist who exhibited widely and painted more than 400 cover portraits for TIME; of cancer; in New York City. The son of the famed Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin, Boris was named for his father's most famous role, Boris Godunov. After studying art in Moscow, he spent ten years polishing his skills in Paris. In 1935 he emigrated to America, and seven years later he sold TIME his first and favorite cover portrait (of Jawaharlal Nehru). TIME'S most prolific cover artist, Chaliapin was also its swiftest: he was able to complete...
...Washington. Pfeiffer left IBM in 1976, after marrying fellow V.P. Ralph Pfeiffer Jr., the divorced father of ten children. She turned down several job offers, including one from President Carter, who wanted to make her Secretary of Commerce. Her reasons: she needed time to recuperate from a thyroid cancer operation, and she was reluctant to spend so much time away from her husband. Pfeiffer then worked as a top-drawer consultant to several major companies, including NBC. Last fall, in a surprise move, she became the $225,000-a-year (plus up to $200,000 a year in bonuses) chairman...