Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Senators have more reason to want a cure for cancer than Massachusetts' Edward Kennedy. In 1973 his son Teddy, now 15, had a leg amputated because of a bone malignancy. But last week, presiding over a crowded, acrimonious Senate subcommittee hearing on Laetrile, Kennedy showed little patience with supporters of the alleged anti-cancer drug. Facing four of Laetrile's leading advocates-three of whom have been convicted of conspiring to smuggle and distribute the apricot-pit extract into the U.S.-Kennedy asked each in turn whether he would "stop, halt and cease raising false hopes...
...other youths help passengers bound for the Nantucket ferry park their cars in the lot of the Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority. Salary: $2.35 per hour. The job is the first for Teddy, who had his right leg amputated in 1973 because of bone cancer. So far, he is happy with his post. "It's an all right job," he said, adding, "It's better than not doing anything this summer." He got it "through friends." As for the future, he guesses that his "real job won't be along this line...
...style. He regularly travels to the Mayo Clinic to visit patients. Once he had a run-in with a traffic cop who pointedly called him "boy" as he wrote up the ticket. The policeman later had the temerity to ask Carew to visit his father, who was dying of cancer. Carew went. After an emotional bedside scene with the son and father, Carew returned to tell his wife: "I guess this is how you change people, one at a time...
Pregnancy is not a disease, nor is it completely unavoidable. But even the best contraceptive methods are not infallible, and the only sure way to avoid pregnancy is abstention. By that standard, perhaps the court believes that Medicaid recipients who smoke should not be covered for cancer treatments; no one has to smoke, after all. The court's decision adds one more injustice to those the poor and disabled suffer in our society, an injustice that will be visited on the children as well as their parents...
Died. Irving H. Saypol, 71, justice of the New York State Supreme Court who was federal prosecutor in the 1951 espionage-conspiracy trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; of cancer; in Manhattan. As U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Saypol also supervised cases against Alger Hiss, Judith Coplon and top U.S. Communist leaders...