Word: leukemias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lying backyards; fumes seeped into cellars. So far, more than 80 chemicals have been found in the dump site itself. At least ten have been identified in homes bordering the old canal, seven of them known to cause cancer in animals. One, benzene, has been linked to leukemia in humans. Women living in the area have suffered 50% more miscarriages than would be expected. There is also a high incidence of birth defects among children; of 24 youngsters in the southernmost section of the neighborhood, health officials report four are mentally retarded. Local residents are doubly upset by the suggestion...
...hero, Scottie Templeton (Jack Lemmon), is a charming, but irresponsible public relations man with a bad case of leukemia. Scottie's one gift has been his ability to make people happy, and in his last days he tries to reconcile with the one person he has made miserable, his son, Jud (Robert Picardo), whom he abandoned in the divorce settlement. He amuses Jud with jokes and funny costumes, finds him a girl (Catherine Hicks), and smothers him with affection. But Jud, a 20-year-old fogy, refuses to shake the glad hand. "Mom said you once told Sonja Henie...
DIED. William Lear, 75, restlessly creative inventor whose farsighted triumphs include the first practical car radio, the autopilot for airplanes, the eight-track stereo cartridge and, more recently, the Learjet; of leukemia; in Reno. Throughout a prodigious career that eventually netted him more than 150 patents, Lear delighted in tackling "impossible" problems. Intrigued by the prospect of designing his own plane, Lear severed connections in 1962 with the electronics firm he had founded, anted up $11 million of his personal fortune, squeezed bank loans and tapped his children's trust funds to finance production of the small, streamlined...
...said a diplomat in Bonn, where Leonid Brezhnev arrived last week on his first trip to the West in nearly a year. It is no secret that the Soviet boss, now 71, has a long history of medical problems, which Western intelligence agencies believe may include gout, leukemia, emphysema and a heart condition that requires him to have a pacemaker. Still, the health precautions that were taken for his four-day stay were startling...
...news was not good. Dr. Ronald Altman, chief epidemiologist for the state's department of health, revealed that Rutherford residents had suffered 32 cases of leukemia and related cancers during the past five years. The eleven cases of Hodgkin's disease, he said, were more than would have been expected in a town with Rutherford's 20,000 population. The total number of leukemia cases (13) was not unusual, he went on, but the distribution of the cases by age range was. A town of Rutherford's size could normally expect .58 cases of leukemia...