Word: longer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...child, after the diagnosis of acute leukemia, was well under a year. Now, with half-a-dozen palliative but no curative drugs available, the average survival time is about five years in major medical centers, and a handful of patients have held on for ten years or longer. The harsh fact remains, however, that a diagnosis of leukemia-cancer of the blood-is still an almost certain sentence of death, no matter how long deferred...
Boondogqles. What he dislikes about the business is what he calls the "star system"-the inability to go anywhere without being gawked at (people are surprised that he is 6 ft. 2 in. tall) and bugged for autographs. As early as 1960, he found that he could no longer cover presidential primaries because bystanders were paying more attention to him than to the candidates. "One of the pains of this job," he said in an interview with TIME Writer Richard Burg-heim, "is that you spend one-third of your time being a celebrity...
Cliffies lunching at Lehman Hall may soon find that many of their male counterparts no longer eat there...
Dudley House members meeting yesterday with Master Thomas E. Crooks '49 proposed that Harvard interhouse at Lehman Hall be ended and that graduate students no longer be allowed to use the lunch facilities between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. In addition, it was proposed that a checker be hired to enforce these rules. No changes were suggested in Radcliffe interhouse quotas...
...battle of behemoths, Kirkland's 210-pound Eric Honick out-fought Dunster's 250-pound Tom Tranchina in a match eventually decided by the referee. Honick's longer riding time gave him the victory. The afternoon of violence came to an end as Lowell's Phil Elkins pinned Quincy's Steve Landau in an uninspiring match of 137-pounders...