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...Steve McQueen, 50, cool, rugged star of action films (The Great Escape, Bullitt, Papillon); of a rare form of chest cancer; in Los Angeles. McQueen, who was married for the third time in January, to Model Barbara Minty, 26, had for months denied rumors of the ailment. Last week he confirmed that doctors had told him in April he was suffering from mesothelioma, a cancer usually regarded as incurable. Since then, he added, a regimen of treatment, including oil baths, vitamins and "positive thinking," had "extraordinarily" improved his condition. Said McQueen: "The reason I denied that I had cancer...
...Arbor police chief William Corbett said the murders were similar in that each of the victims was stabbed in the chest area early on a Sunday morning, each was a young, attractive, unescorted woman living in a large apartment complex and none was sexually molested...
...filament of stereo speaker wire or touched the tip of a thorn. The needle was so fine and flexible that if not in the hands of an expert, it would have bent when meeting my skin rather than sticking. The next sets of needles went into my wrist, chest, abdomen and lower neck. I had been a pin cushion for 20 minutes before he at last applied his needles to the area I needed treated...
...political mileage out of Ullman's past support of the tax. Smith is also making an issue of high unemployment (up to 34.6% this past summer in Harney County) in the district, which is heavily dependent on the timber industry. Smith already has $420,000 in his campaign chest and hopes to raise $330,000 more with the help of conservative businessmen's groups. With Ullman likely to spend $550,000, the hotly contested House race could be one of the most costly in the nation this year, and one of the closest...
Roberts found that the men had been running for as long as ten years, averaging from 13.5 to 107 miles (22 to 173 km) a week; only one had ever complained of chest pains. Yet post-mortems revealed severe atherosclerosis-the buildup of plaque, or fatty deposits-in the major coronary arteries. Thus, concludes Roberts, heart disease was "the major killer...