Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your article "Sweet Risk?" [March 13], I found Bernard Cohen's calculations impressive-but not the suggestion that we can equate the cancer risk from using saccharin with an average reduction in life expectancy of two days...
DIED. John Cazale, 42, an actor who went straight to the private heart of his every characterization; of cancer; in Manhattan. Cazale found his widest success as Fredo, the slow, shy, forever startled, finally traitorous older brother in Francis Coppola's Godfather films. Other parts-notably as Al Pacino's out-of-tune partner in Dog Day Afternoon-confirmed Cazale's gift for searching out the darkest shadows in a role, then rendering them with shades of wit and unswerving compassion...
DIED. Theresa Weld Blanchard, 84, who became America's first ladies' figure-skating champion in 1914, and won nine U.S. gold medals with Partner Nathaniel Niles during her reign as "Queen of the Ice" in the 1920s and 1930s; of cancer; in Boston. Rebelling against the constrained motions then expected even of free skaters in America, Blanchard pioneered a more sweeping international style and was often marked down by judges for her "unladylike" loops and swoops. She founded Skating magazine and served as its editor for 40 years...
When students can satisfy the requirements by taking The Scandinavian Cinema or Biology of Cancer, one inevitably wonders whether the program still reflects any clear sense of intellectual priorities. The current proposal, with its more carefully delineated categories, does much to redefine the fundamental aims of a liberal education and provide a structure to insure that these goals will be reflected in each student's course of study...
...educate the public about racism and oppression in America as well as in South Africa. David Huet-Vaughn, chairman of the Tennessee Coalition Against Apartheid, said demonstrations like the one this weekend will "provide the impetus for a future national movement to cut out international racism like a cancer...