Word: emphysema
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Precisely what ails Brezhnev is a closely guarded secret, known only to a handful of Kremlin insiders. Speculation has included cancer of the jaw, emphysema, heart disease, gout, leukemia and an ailment called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis that causes progressive muscular deterioration...
...long as they do not smoke more or inhale more deeply, these converts may be better off-but not much. The U.S. Surgeon General in his annual survey of smoking reported last week that low-yield brands reduce the risk of developing lung cancer only slightly, and heart disease, emphysema and bronchitis not at all. There is also a new worry. To enhance the cigarettes' weaker flavor, manufacturers have been using additives, some of which, like cocoa, turn into cancer-causing substances when burned. More bad news was contained in the British Medical Journal. A 14-year study...
DIED. George Raft, 85, actor who epitomized the tightlipped, coolly menacing tough guy in such films as Each Dawn I Die (1939) and Mr. Ace (1946); of emphysema; in Los Angeles. A grade-school dropout who grew up in New York City's Hell's Kitchen, Raft took jobs as a prizefighter, a baseball player and an exhibition dancer before he was discovered by a director at Hollywood's Brown Derby restaurant and won the movie roles that led to his breakthrough in Scarface (1932). In his later years his career lagged, and he was barred from...
DIED. William J. Sebald, 78, who as political adviser to General Douglas MacArthur in postwar Japan played a leading role in repatriating more than 500,000 Japanese prisoners of war and later served as Ambassador to Burma and Australia; of emphysema; in Naples...
DIED. Kenneth Tynan, 53, English drama critic and writer, whose astringently elegant, epigrammatic prose stirred controversy and swayed opinions on both sides of the Atlantic; of emphysema; in Santa Monica, Calif. He cut a precocious figure at Oxford, and by age 27 was drama critic of the London Observer. Admitting that his aim was to "rouse tempers, goad, lacerate, raise whirlwinds," he championed new playwrights (Osborne, Wesker) whose work undermined drawing-room gentility and reinforced "the umbilical connection between what was happening on the stage and what was happening in the world." For ten years, starting in 1963, Tynan served...