Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...core's container and releases a deadly cloud of radioactive gases. In the event of such an accident, people close to the plant would die quickly, while others, living as far as a couple of hundred miles downwind of the plant, might die later of radiation induced cancer...
DIED. John McLean Clifford, 74, former president of Curtis Publishing whose frugal reign failed to resuscitate the financially ill company, leading to the 1969 demise of its flagship magazine, the Saturday Evening Post; of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. A lawyer, Clifford became president of the Philadelphia company in 1964, inheriting bank debts totaling $37 million. Though he showed a small surplus in 1966, he was unable to stem further losses and was ousted...
...money from the Rita Allen Fund will pay the salary of a "young faculty member" working in cancer prevention, Hiatt said...
Massachusetts residents have particular cause for concern, according to Cairns. "If you live around here, your probability of dying of cancer is about one-third higher than if you lived in a Rocky Mountain state," he said...
Cairns will speak on the causes of human cancer today in Science Center B at 5 p.m. in the second part of the series...