Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Dr. David Karnofsky, 55, one of the world's outstanding researchers in the discovery and development of drugs for the treatment of cancer; of cancer; in Ellsworth, Me. While working on chemical warfare during World War II, Karnofsky theorized that mustard gas and similar agents might be tamed and used effectively in treating cancer. With singular dedication, he set about proving his theory by conducting extensive experiments that eventually provided the medical world with a whole new concept of cancer therapy. The cost may have been his own life: doctors suspect that Karnofsky's death resulted from...
Julian is an English economist in his middle 30s-or has been one, since economics can describe only the past or the future and his attention has been sharpened down to pain's single vivid dimension, the present. He shelters a crab: cancer. The effort of concentrating properly on the crab's requirements makes him weave and shake like a drunk. He is not a drunk; alcohol cannot touch the pain or the concentration that balances it. When the pain becomes so demanding that there is no awareness left to walk with, though, Julian stops...
...paolin I, an antibacterial compound, and paolin II, an antiviral agent. Both were extracted from the juices of the abalone by Dr. Chen Pien Li at the National Institutes of Health. Similar extracts from quahaugs (thick-shelled clams) have been found to be active against some forms of cancer in mice. So far, chemicals from shellfish appear to have only moderate potency, but the sea offers an almost infinite variety of other potential sources, such as algae, corals and sponges, and the bacteria that live in or on them...
Died. Guy Rowe, 75, U.S. artist whose intensely realistic portraits (with the signature "Giro") graced more than 40 TIME covers; of cancer; in Huntington, N.Y. Rowe discovered his talent via a vaudeville act in which he drew chalk portraits of well-known people; he saved enough money for art school, became a New York commerical artist, and in 1943 won his first TIME commission. The association was interrupted from 1945 to 1949 while he worked on 32 highly acclaimed illustrations to Biblical characters for the book In Our Image: Character Studies from the Old Testament. Then he went back...
Died. Zaddie Bunker, 81, known as "the flying great-grandmother," who went buzzing off into the wild blue at an age when most of her contemporaries were shopping for rocking chairs; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Bunker was 65 when she earned her pilot's license; a year later she took off on the first of three transcontinental solo flights ("Motoring just isn't safe enough," she explained) and at 71 rode through the sound barrier in an Air Force F-100F Super Sabre. Two years ago, she even applied to be an astronaut. "I could...