Word: leukemias
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...Saturday, July 13 The Defenders (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A businessman (Arthur Hill) is told he is to die of leukemia. He kills his partner in a state of shock and is defended by the Prestons...
...change his controversial 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration Act and relentlessly investigated Communist infiltration in Hollywood and in teaching, yet for all his reputation as a conservative, voted so often for those "damn liberal" bills that the vote-watching Americans for Democratic Action gave him an 80% liberal rating; of leukemia; in Washington...
...King Paul of Greece, 61, recovering from an appendectomy, at Evan-gelismos Hospital, Athens; Soviet First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, 67, reportedly hospitalized with flu and complications, in Moscow; Representative Francis E. Walter, 69, Pennsylvania Democrat, chairman of House Committee on Un-American Activities, stricken with leukemia, but "up and about," in Georgetown University Hospital...
...Would Lie There." One day last July Davis woke up with swollen glands in his neck and was ordered to an Evanston, Ill., hospital for a checkup. He had leukemia (cancer of the blood), but doctors did not tell him until October. The disease was then in a "perfect state of remission"-his blood count was normal-and Davis insisted that he was strong enough to play football. "I was never in pain," he complained. "I would lie there feeling good and strong, as if I should be able to leave and do what I wanted to, which was play...
...Leukemia, reported the World Health Organization, has strange geographic preferences that might contain some valuable clues to the origin of the disease. In the U.S., mortality from leukemia is 50% higher in cities than in rural areas. The disease generally seems to thrive in a belt stretching across the north of the country, particularly west of the Mississippi. In New York City, it occurs twice as often among the Jewish population as among Protestants or Roman Catholics. Mortality from leukemia is high in the U.S., Denmark and Israel but relatively low in France, Ireland, Italy and Japan...