Word: cancerously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Gerald Warner Brace, 76, novelist of the New England scene (among his eleven books: The Garretson Chronicle and The Islands) and longtime professor of English at Boston University; of cancer; in Blue Hill, Me. A stylish lecturer who in spired thousands of students with his incisive and dry-humored dissections of American literature. Brace, though born on Long Island, developed a lifetime love affair with New England (and particularly Maine) that was reflected in the values that his life and novels extolled: duty, moderation, self-control and, above all, the enduring power of reason...
DIED. Jackson Tate, 79, retired Navy admiral who won a two-year diplomatic battle to meet the daughter produced by his fleeting wartime affair with a Soviet actress; of cancer; in Jacksonville, Fla. Stationed in Moscow in 1945, Tate met and courted Film Star Zoya Fyodorova. Soviet authorities banished Tate and sent Fyodorova to a hard-labor camp for eight years. Not until 1963 did Tate learn that a daughter, Victoria, had been born of one of their last trysts. Finally in 1975, Victoria, now a film star herself, was granted a three-month exit visa to visit...
...farmer's son. Evita, as the crowd called her, was a third-rate actress with first-rate street smarts who worked her way up from the casting couch to the Pink House, the traditional seat of Argentina's First Family. When she died in 1952 of cancer at the age of 33, the bereaved descamisados sought to have her canonized. The Vatican diplomatically declined, suggesting that her good works were basically secular...
...conventional pesticides cannot stop the invasion, the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington will consider permitting the states to use the banned poison heptachlor. It is extremely effective against grasshoppers, but researchers suspect it of causing cancer in animals. By law, the EPA can approve use of heptachlor only after public hearings, a process that usually takes more than 30 days...
...would have known that the story was probably fraudulent; experts agree that no mammal has yet been cloned. Instead, the publisher depended entirely on the word of Author David Rorvik, a little-known freelancer whose credentials include naive articles about psychics and faith healers, and newsletters supporting the quack cancer drug Laetrile...