Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than a smattering of instruction in medical technology. Now a dozen institutions are reaching for help from nearby technical schools. And they are training a whole new breed of surgeons. Working along with engineers and scientists, says Dr. Boatman, these men will develop new techniques-for heart trouble, strokes, cancer-the list is endless...
...chairman, Gimbel personally changed the family firm into an empire that this year will sell $600 million worth of merchandise in 27 Gimbels stores and 27 swankier Saks Fifth Avenue stores. Beyond that, with a zest that lasted almost up to his death last week at 81 of spinal cancer, Gimbel roamed his adopted city as its conscience, urging on everything from bigger buildings to better education. "Anyone who lives in this city," he would say, "and doesn't make a contribution to it is like a barnacle on a boat...
...from The Bronx who could barely sing a note, but in the flapper-happy '20s turned a baby voice, puckered-up lips, a couple of songs (/ Wanna Be Loved by You, Button Up Your Overcoat) and one nonsense phrase ("boop-boop-a-doop") into a national craze; of cancer; in Queens...
Died. Lillian Smith, 68, Southern gentlewoman author and front-line campaigner for racial equality; of cancer; in Atlanta (see THE NATION...
Died. Bernard F. Gimbel, 81, empire builder of Greeley Square; of cancer; in Manhattan (see U.S. BUSINESS...