Word: cancerously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...before my next trip to the U.S. Tell me, though, is it good form to throw drinks at drivers of gas guzzlers-those polluters of my air or does one slash tires? Also, are those antismoker sprays aerosol? If so, there goes the ozone layer, and I get skin cancer. Is shin-kicking of aerosol wielders 'in," or do you cut off ties with scissors...
DIED. James Whitney Fosburgh, 67, portrait and landscape painter who under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson served as chairman of a special committee to buy American paintings for the White House; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Well, I was still afraid. I had read, though not on the Op-Ed page of The New York Times, that .000001 grams of plutonium will cause lung cancer if inhaled, that each nuclear reaction produces about 200,000 grams of plutonium every year, and that plutonium has a half-life of 24,000 years. The record of America's 67 licensed plants is replete with accounts of major spills, leaks, material unaccounted for, and narrowly averted catastrophic accidents...
Doctors and environmental officials plan to test Rutherford's air, water and soil, check out any radiation sources in the area and interview families of cancer victims to identify any factors that might reveal causal links between the various cases. But they candidly warned it was impossible to promise hard results. Studies of similar clusters, as such groupings of cases are called, have turned up no clear clues as to their causes...
DIED. Long John Nebel, 66, dean of all-night radio talk-show hosts whose early specialty was interviewing hypnotists, UFO freaks and sundry other pitchmen of the occult; of cancer; in Manhattan. An eighth-grade dropout with a quicksilver tongue, Long John (6 ft. 5 in.) worked as carnival huckster, mind reader and auctioneer before going on Manhattan's WOR in 1956. Indefatigable, he came to command 42 hours of air time a week on WNBC, more than any other host in radio history...