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...Annual chest X rays, recommended in the past for early detection of lung cancer in smokers and others at high risk, are no longer deemed necessary. Nor is sputum cytology, an analysis of lung cells contained in sputum. One reason: lung cancer is still so resistant to cure as to make early detection useless and a waste of money. Rather, prevention, especially by avoiding smoking, should be emphasized...
...separate risk-taking Lloyd's syndicates have insured countless ships and just about everything else from satellites to the Loch Ness monster and Betty Grable's legs. They even underwrote for $1 million the bust of a San Francisco striptease dancer billed as "Treasure Chest West...
...with his imaginary network. Derived from guidebooks and railway timetables, the false messages flow to Madrid and thence to Berlin with "authentic" reports on everything from British re search on light alloys to homosexuality in the submarine service. Luis comes closer and closer to a Mauser slug in the chest. In real life, and most fiction, he would be cheaply expendable. Here he is not, because the rise of Luis from Franco's Most Wanted list to nouveau millionaire is too good to end abruptly, not least because his life is joined by Juliet Francis Conroy, a Los Angelena...
...president, the Brown scenario went, would take care of Ted Kennedy--if and when he ran--sometime in the early going. With Kennedy knocked out, Brown would step in as the only viable alternative to another four years of a Carter White House. No such luck. The Brown war chest, says press secretary Larry Powers, is "down to the bottom." But the candidate himself seems little concerned with such mundane matters when The Universe is waiting to be dealt with. "Right now," Powers concedes, "the campaign is sort of schizophrenic...
...blood and bits and pieces of what had been human beings. Some corpses were missing arms and legs; one lacked a head. Another had an iron bar through its skull from ear to ear. Still another corpse hung from a cell block ceiling, the word RAT carved on its chest...