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DIED. Dewey Bartlett, 59, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma; of lung cancer; in Tulsa, Okla. A millionaire oilman and rancher, Bartlett was elected his state's first Roman Catholic (and second Republican) Governor in 1966, and after losing a re-election bid four years later, won his Senate seat in 1972. Deeply conservative, he became best known in Washington as the Senate's staunchest defender of oil and gas company interests. Aware of his illness, Bartlett chose not to seek another term, retiring from the Senate in January...
...generation later, the awe has turned into fear. Studies now show that an unusually high number of those Utah youngsters exposed to nuclear fallout eventually died of leukemia. Similarly, there are indications of a high cancer rate among military personnel who observed the tests at close range. At the same time, other investigations are finding high incidences of cancer among the workers who overhaul nuclear submarines at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Me. This evidence raises anew one of the most difficult questions of the nuclear age: What is the minimum threshold at which even seemingly low levels...
Knowles, who had been hospitalized eight weeks with pancreatic cancer, became president of the Rockefeller Foundation seven years ago. The foundation provides grants amounting to $44 million a year to medical research and to projects which address social problems throughout the world...
...although Geoffrey P. Pollitt, director of the Bio Labs, said yesterday that such funding is "unusual." University records show only three instances of private funding for research, one from UpJohn Corporation, one from Biogen, who is helping to pay for the insulin experiments of Walter F. Gilbert '53, American Cancer Society Professor of Molecular Biology, and one from the Campbell Soup Corporation, which sponsored mushroom research earlier this decade...
...When, in the 1950s," the letter began, "Robert Hutchins was haled before a congressional committee and asked if it was true that the University of Chicago taught communism, he replied, 'Yes. And in the medical school we teach cancer...