Word: kerrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some chemicals once used in dye-making have been clearly shown to cause bladder cancer in both industrial workers and laboratory animals, and last week Dr. William K. Kerr of Toronto's famed Banting Institute reported that he had found similar cancer-causing chemicals in the urine of heavy smokers. The villain in the piece, reported Dr. Kerr and his colleagues at the University of Toronto, is a group called the ortho-aminophenols...
...Kerr's team did 30 special tests on volunteers, some of whom normally smoked but quit for a while during the experiment, some of whom did not smoke but took it up for a while for the sake of science. The results were the same in both groups: men who were using cigarettes excreted in their urine abnormally large amounts of an ortho-aminophenol known to be capable of causing cancer. Going off cigarettes reversed the effect. The researchers' conclusion: inhaling smoke into the lungs, a practice that would seem to have no bearing on cancer...
...course, English P. "Dramatic Interpretation and Background of Theatre," and the College's only course for credit in the performing arts. According to Harry P. Kerr, associate professor of Public Speaking, the English Department will probably not make an effort to resume the course...
President Clark Kerr and Martin Meyerson, acting chancellor of the Berkeley campus, had resigned last week after Edward Carter, chairman of the Board of Regents, called a special meeting to take charge of the case. The two withdrew their resignations when the Regents instead voted to leave disciplinary matters to the faculty...
...undernourished books that he lets fly. Prime examples: Camelot, which glittered as if it had been ripped from a medieval Book of Hours, and was called by Critic John McClain "the most beautiful show in the world." Or in Baker Street, whose eyeball-melting panoply was likened by Walter Kerr to "three world's fairs rolled into...