Word: cancer
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DIED. Sir Terence Rattigan, 66, prolific British playwright (The Winslow Boy, Separate Tables); of cancer; in Hamilton, Bermuda. After Rattigan left Oxford to write plays, his father supported him during a trial period. Just as it ended, his comedy French Without Tears became a hit and ran for 1,039 performances in London. Rattigan's forte was, as he once said, "the play that unashamedly says nothing-except possibly that human beings are strange creatures, and worth putting on the stage, where they can be laughed at or cried over, as our pleasure takes...
...Syrian hamsters in cancer research would help scientists fight cancer by making it easier to identify carcinogenic substances, Fred Homborger, director of the Bio-Research Institute in Cambridge, said yesterday...
Even a small leak would release radioactive waste that would persist in the environment, causing cancer and birth defects into the indefinite future, she added...
...addition, the Biohazards Committee could recommend that the city council set up guidelines for research in other potentially dangerous areas, such as experiments with cancer and radiation, Hayes said...
...Jean died of a liver ailment, and Vanauken plunged into despair. It was an astringent letter from Lewis that enabled Vanauken to make some sense out of her death-and his life. Longtime Bachelor Lewis later suffered similar tragedy when he married a woman he knew was dying of cancer...