Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peggy, 18; George, 16; and Lee, 7); his late wife, Lurleen, reportedly once nearly divorced him as a consequence of his neglect. Yet in his anxiety to maintain a power base for his presidential bid, he did not hesitate to run her for Governor in 1966 (she died of cancer last...
Down Mexico Way. By virtue of propinquity, Canada and Mexico are meccas for questionable healers seeking across-the-border trade. But Canada's drug laws are about as strict as the U.S. code, and the Ottawa government forbids the distribution of a dubious cancer drug, "Laetrile." It also forbids shipments between provinces of "Liefcort," a hormone preparation for arthritis dispensed by Dr. Robert Liefmann in Montreal. Liefmann is now appealing in the Quebec courts against a medical board decision suspending him from practice for five years, for allowing unlicensed assistants to give his treatment...
...said Dorman, both Laetrile and Liefcort are still available in Mexico, especially in border towns near California and Texas. San Diego is the headquarters for a lay group named the International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends, which drums up business for the Mexican clinics "where the discredited and worthless cancer products are used...
Dorman pointed out that it took the Food and Drug Administration almost 20 years to end U.S. sales of a phony cancer medicine produced by self-styled "Dr." Harry Hoxsey in Texas. The federal judge presiding over the case was taking the preparation himself to prevent recurrence of what he thought was cancer of the stomach. (It wasn't.) Now, said Dorman, a former nurse of Hoxsey's is making and selling the brew in Mexico...
Died. Frank Skinner, 69, Hollywood composer, who wrote orchestrations for more than 30 films, including The Great Ziegfeld (1936), The Magnificent Obsession (1954), and Away All Boats (1956), of cancer; in Hollywood...