Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...allegations sounded like excerpts from the script of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest. Lawyer Patrick Murphy, who filed a suit in Chicago last week, charged that between 25 and 100 patients in Illinois' Manteno Mental Health Center underwent "unauthorized and secret" experimental surgery in the 1950s and '60s at the University of Chicago's Billings Hospital. The surgery removed their adrenal glands, organs atop the kidneys, which produce cortisone and other hormones. The supervising surgeon: Dr. Charles B. Huggins, 77, winner of a Nobel Prize for his pioneering work on hormonal treatment of cancer...
Murphy, who as Cook County's public guardian is responsible for legally incompetent wards of the state, responded with further charges. At week's end, he quoted a psychiatrist's memo that said the center was "virtually a human dog lab." At Murphy's request, a judge issued an order barring destruction of any records that might shed light on the case. Huggins, for his part, left no doubt about what he thought of the suit: "It stinks...
While at the podium, Fine enumerated Harvard's three basketball needs--a new gymnasium, another full-time assistant coach and "a real big center, about 6-10, an aircraft carrier...
Ahead 6-5, Marshall singled to right to lead off the sixth. Then, on the next pitch. Mike Stenhouse ripped a deep drive to center. Penn's Gary Ciccatiello caught up with the shot and threw to first to double off Marshall, who had been off with the pitch and was then standing on third...
...feet long, took off from City Hall Plaza at 8 a.m., and "Baby Flo" took off from Fanueil Hall at noon. The smaller of the two gaseous giants, a mere 40 feet long, migrated down Boylston St. from the Christian Science Center to Copley...