Word: cancers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...check any sudden spurt in defection, Peking sent army units to the borders above Hong Kong and Macao, but a lot of Chinese still managed to slip through. With them came unconfirmed reports that Mao Tse-tung was suffering from throat cancer and that the Red Guard-led purge was the last gasp of a dying dictator. To be sure, Mao has not spoken publicly during his last few outings, allowing Defense Minister Lin Piao (TIME, Sept. 9) to be his mouthpiece. Last week Lin was placed directly in command of the Red Guards-a position heretofore held...
...Illia moved into his brother's house in a Buenos Aires suburb and watched over his ailing wife, Sylvia, 46, who recently returned from the U.S., where she had been treated for cancer. Occasionally, he would break the bedside vigil to receive some of his old friends and former ministers, with whom he talked for hours about what might have been...
Even though some filters are working more effectively than others, said Dr. Moore, none is really successful in protecting the smoker against lung cancer, emphysema, and cardiovascular disabilities. "Many filters are just not doing the job," he said...
...cigarette filters cut down on the tar and nicotine that have helped to earn tobacco its unpleasant reputation as a cause of lung cancer, heart disease and assorted other ills? Certainly both tobacco companies and smokers seem to think so. In 1952, only 2% of cigarettes manufactured in the U.S. were filtered; last year, when more cigarettes were sold than ever before, 64.7% had tips purportedly capable of straining out dangerous substances...
...recently as 1962, even so eminent a cancer researcher as Dr. George...