Word: clue
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...more dreaded than acute leukemia. The disease, which often afflicts the young, is characterized by an uncontrolled proliferation of certain white blood cells, which gradually crowd out the vital red blood cells. The cause of this lethal rampage is not yet clear, but what may be a crucial clue has just been reported in Nature by Dr. Robert C. Gallo of the National Cancer Institute. His findings could point the way to a leukemia cure...
...White House press aide Ronald Ziegler may have provided a clue to another, hidden reason for the raid when he said that the U. S. "would, of course, hold the leaders of North Vietnam personally responsible for any action taken against prisoners...
...some 20 females chanting such slogans as 'power to the people' came up Divinity Ave.," said Guy Darst of the Harvard News Office. In the space of ten minutes, they decorated the walls, passed out leaflets and left-all without a clue to their identity, he said...
...Clue in the Candy. The farthest-out macrobiotic lore, which would come as a surprise to the Zen Buddhist monks themselves, is to be found in the culinary columns of underground newspapers, where readers are routinely warned against eating too much meat, dairy products or sugar. A columnist in the Los Angeles Free Press, for example, recently speculated that the University of Texas massacre a few years back was caused by too much yin-in this case sugar-in the killer's blood. The clue that supported his conclusion: chocolate candy was found in the pockets of the slain...
...clue suggesting that Jack was really "S," an eminent personage, was the curious manner in which police dealt with the 1888 murder cases. When Sir Charles Warren, the Scotland Yard chief, arrived at one of the murder-mutilation scenes, he ordered that writing chalked on a nearby wall-presumably by the killer-be erased. Jack, Stowell believes, was certified insane and was quietly placed in a private mental home -although he later escaped and committed his last and most horrible murder, that of a prostitute named Mary Jane Kelly. He cut her throat, obliterated her face, removed her liver, heart...