Word: cancerously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Walter Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, said the insulin research may eventually lead to commercial production of several important proteins other than insulin--such as the human growth factor hormone--which are now available only in small quantities...
DIED. Barbara Gushing Paley, 63, graceful socialite and one of the world's best-dressed women; of cancer; in Manhattan. "Babe" Paley was introduced early to high society as one of three beautiful daughters of Boston Neurosurgeon Harvey Gushing. She first hit the best-dressed lists "on nothing a year" as a fashion editor for Vogue magazine, choosing simple but striking clothes that marked her quiet sense of personal style. In 1947 she married William S. Paley, chairman of the board of the Columbia Broadcasting System, and came to embody a standard of elegance by which social functions...
...National Cancer Institute grant and the University are funding the facility, which costs approximately...
DIED. Clifford Dupont, 72, first President of Rhodesia after the African country established itself as a republic in 1970; of cancer; in Salisbury. A dapper London-born soldier who practiced law before turning to politics, Dupont helped draw up the Unilateral Declaration of Independence that first cut Rhodesia's ties with Great Britain in 1965 and reaffirmed white minority rule. As head of state under Prime Minister Ian Smith (he was, he once said, politically far to the right of Smith), he appropriated not only the powers of British Governor Sir Humphrey Gibbs but also his vintage Rolls-Royce...
...makes the spleen particularly important in warding off serious bacterial infections and meningitis in children, who have not yet developed immunity to certain microorganisms. Yet doctors have long been puzzled by the fact that such infections, relatively common in children whose spleens have been removed in the treatment of cancer or blood disease, seldom show up in youngsters whose spleens have ruptured and then been removed. Now a team of Yale University researchers thinks it has part of the answer...