Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Laetrile believers are unlikely to lose faith even if the drug flunks tests on humans conducted by Sloan-Kettering or the National Cancer Institute. They will claim that the tests were "fixed" because the experimenters were "biased...
Every day I see firsthand cancer victims who have had the maximum of "accepted treatments" and are desperately seeking Laetrile. These poor souls not only have their cancer to contend with, they have the devastating side effects of the accepted treatments too. That is why there is a rebellion against the irrational stand of the medical bureaucracy...
Crime is decimating communities like Harlem. Says William Lundon, a homicide detective: "It's as if there were a cancer out there, with the doctor operating every day." To ward off robberies, Harlem merchants?almost all of them blacks?often stay open 24 hours a day. But the longer they are around, the more chance there is that they will be assaulted. One all-night grocer, a genial man in his 60s who was shot...
Died. Velma ("Wild Horse Annie") Johnston, 65, redoubtable leader of the campaign to preserve wild-horse herds in the West; apparently of cancer; in Reno. Johnston's lobbying efforts resulted in the 1959 "Wild Horse Annie Law," a federal statute prohibiting the hunting of wild horses from aircraft and trucks, and the 1971 "Wild Free Roaming Horse and Burro Act," which gave the animals further protection. She was president of both WHOA (Wild Horse Organized Assistance Inc.) and the International Society for the Protection of Mustangs and Burros...
Died. Walter Kennedy, 65, longtime (1963-75) commissioner of the National Basketball Association; of cancer; in Stamford, Conn. During his tenure, basketball became almost as popular as baseball and football, a competitive American Basketball Association was organized, and players became some of the highest-salaried...