Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adults they refused even to discuss the possibility of separation. To them, such a move would have seemed no less than amputation of a major limb. In recent weeks their feeling haunted their physician, Dr. John Appel, because though Mary seemed entirely healthy, Margaret was suffering from rapidly spreading cancer. But the sisters did not change their view, and last week when Margaret's cancer had spread to her lungs and heart, it had also spread...
...Legacy. When he became ill, Ruby screamed that his jailers were piping mustard gas into his cell. Later, when doctors discovered that he was suffering from adenocarcinoma-a cancer that had spread swiftly through most of the cavities, ducts and glands of his body-Ruby accused them of injecting him with the disease. Almost from the moment of his arrival at the hospital on Dec. 9, Ruby's case was considered hopeless-and he knew it. Yet he seemed calmer and more lucid at the brink of death than he had for months-possibly because he had a window...
...retirement in 1959, a shrewd Ukrainian-born entrepreneur who added another star to the galaxy of U.S. success stories by building a real estate (largely in Philadelphia) and retailing business that today grosses $850 million annually and provided him with a fortune estimated at close to $100 million; of cancer; in Philadelphia...
...more stylish body, was duly awarded a vice-presidency by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., and continued to serve G.M. as a company director and technical troubleshooter, most notably during World War II, when he played a major role in converting auto production lines to tanks, trucks and planes; of cancer; in Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit...
Untold adventure awaits him. He is the man who will land on the moon, cure cancer and the common cold, lay out blight-proof, smog-free cities, enrich the underdeveloped world and, no doubt, write finis to poverty...