Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...July 11, Genrikh Altunian, a Soviet army major and a teacher at the Military Institute of Kharkov, was arrested after a house search had turned up copies of Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward and issues of the Chronicle. He was expelled from the Communist Party, cashiered from the army and jailed in a KGB isolation prison...
Stalinist Crimes. Solzhenitsyn spoke in his own defense at the Ryazan meeting, which took place two weeks ago. The leader of the attack on Solzhenitsyn was a hack writer named Vasily Matushkin. He conceded that he had never read Solzhenitsyn's novels The First Circle and Cancer Ward, which are banned in the Soviet Union because they are a devastating portrayal of conditions in Stalin's concentration camps. Matushkin, however, contended that the West uses the books "to throw mud on our motherland." "How do you explain that they so eagerly print you in the West?" he asked...
...more that is learned about the pesticide with the awesome name of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, the more dangerous it seems to be. DDT has been accused of contributing to the virtual disappearance of the peregrine-falcon on the East Coast of the U.S., of causing cancer in mice, and of upsetting whole ecosystems. It is ubiquitous, appearing unexpectedly in Lake Michigan's coho salmon and even in Antarctica's snows, where it is carried by winds. Some scientists fear that DDT, washed into oceans, may kill off the plankton that supplies 70% of the earth's oxygen...
Hammond's statistical analyses show that uterine cancer deaths began to decline in the 1930s. This was before the Pap smear was in wide use, but after cancer campaigners had begun to stress the seven warning signals. The decline accelerated dramatically with wide use of the Pap smear...
Suspect Virus. A link between cervical cancer and poor hygiene, plus lack of circumcision, would be easier to explain if an infectious agent could be implicated. Researchers at Baylor University have found a suspect. It is a virus technically known as Herpesvirus hominis, Type II, closely related to the herpes virus, Type I, which causes fever blisters around the mouth. Type II infects the genital regions of both sexes; it is found in smegma, the secretion under the foreskin, and is readily transmitted during sexual contact...