Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...according to the law. He returned to power after his former classmate Hayato Ikeda took over the Liberal Democratic leadership in 1960. Sato became Minister of Olympic Construction, and for his excellent performance won respect and a new shot at power. After Ikeda fell ill with a terminal cancer in November 1964, Sato's long wait was over: he succeeded to both the party presidency and the premiership...
James H. Bedford, 73, a retired psychology professor dying of cancer, in Glendale, Calif., had decided years ago that he wanted his body preserved by freezing for later revival if possible. He had left $4,200 for a steel capsule and for liquid nitrogen to keep his body frozen at about 200° below zero centigrade. When Bedford died on Jan. 12, his physician, Dr. B. Renault Able, began to pack the body in ice. Members of the Cryonics Society of California arrived to help. They spent eight hours, sending out periodically for more ice, getting the body frozen solid...
...Prospects. Underlying these strange rites was the hope that when cures for cancer are discovered, Bedford's body could be thawed out, cured, and restored to healthy life. This hope has been fostered by Robert C. W. Ettinger, a physics teacher at a Michigan junior college, in his book The Prospect of Immortality (TIME, Sept...
...President at the 1960 convention, later backed Bobby for U.S. Senator, but lost his own congressional seat to a Reform Democrat in 1964 and spent his last years petulantly flailing away at the "amateurs," "stiffs" and "Johnny-come-late-lies" who were wresting party control from him; of lung cancer; in the Bronx...
Skin Valve. Most patients who lose the larynx are cancer victims. These number about 6,000 a year in the U.S., and more than half of them learn to speak again by swallowing huge gulps of air. When they bring it up, it makes the throat muscles vibrate at a fixed, almost toneless pitch, in what Dr. William W. Montgomery of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary calls "an educated burp." Every time Surgeon Montgomery has done a laryngectomy, he has longed for a way to give the patient something better than this burping speech. He saw the results...