Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might be safe after all and their valiant struggle was unnecessary. The Tobacco Institute, lobby for the industry, declared, "We could not have written it [Carter's statement] better than that." And almost as if on cue, Gio Batta Gori, a high official of the Government-financed National Cancer Institute, announced a short-term study showing that some of the new cigarettes were so low in toxins that they could be smoked in "tolerable" numbers without appreciable bad effects on average smokers...
...rise. Pools, some bubbling like witches' cauldrons, appeared in low-lying backyards; fumes seeped into cellars. So far, more than 80 chemicals have been found in the dump site itself. At least ten have been identified in homes bordering the old canal, seven of them known to cause cancer in animals. One, benzene, has been linked to leukemia in humans. Women living in the area have suffered 50% more miscarriages than would be expected. There is also a high incidence of birth defects among children; of 24 youngsters in the southernmost section of the neighborhood, health officials report four...
DIED. Ben Moreell, 85, retired Four-Star Admiral who created and commanded the Navy's World War II Seabee units; of cancer; in Pittsburgh. Seeing a need for wartime construction crews that could fend off attack, Moreell recruited a new corps of gun-toting workers he called the Seabees, for CBs, or Construction Battalions. He directed their $10 billion fortification of Atlantic-Pacific bases, and had the foresight to include Pearl Harbor, which gained two docks invaluable in its recovery from the 1941 Japanese invasion. After the war, Moreell became Chairman of Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp...
DIED. Mary Pillsbury Lord, 73, former U.S. representative to the U.N. Human Rights Commission and delegate to the General Assembly; of cancer; in Manhattan. The granddaughter of the founder of the Pillsbury flour company, Lord served as a volunteer in numerous health and welfare organizations. In 1945 during one of her many tours of Europe for the WAC, Lord struck up a friendship with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, and in 1952 became co-chairman of the National Citizens Committee for Eisenhower-Nixon and campaigned tirelessly for the Republican ticket. In 1953 when Eleanor Roosevelt resigned her post on the Human...
...valleys at the top of the world. There are frequent outcroppings of autobiography as Matthiessen, scion of a wealthy New York family, graduate of Hotchkiss and Yale and a founder in the 1950s of the Paris Review, writes with painful openness of his wife's death from cancer the year before: "It is not hard to live with a saint, for a saint makes no judgments, but saintlike aspiration presents problems. I found her goodness maddening, and behaved badly...