Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Al Hodge, 66, onetime actor best known as Captain Video, television's first kiddie hero; of lung disease; in Manhattan. Already a popular radio performer who had played the Green Hornet from 1936 to 1943, Hodge joined the DuMont network serial Captain Video and his Video Rangers in 1950 and for the next six years, rocketed around the 23rd century universe, battling a galaxy of such villains as Mook the Moon Man and Spartak of the Black Planet. His re-entry was rough, however. Indelibly typecast as the galactic commander-he was even addressed as "Captain" while testifying...
Cairns cited statistics indicating cancer cells may be present in the body for many years before the disease becomes apparent. "In the case of lung cancer, there is a 20 to 25 year lag between people doing something to themselves, and getting the consequences," he said...
...LEFT the theater, a Reuben look-alike pressed a pamphlet into my hand. Urging a J.P. Stevens boycott, it outlined that company's many offenses. Like many people, I had always professed undying concern about unions and 'brown lung' and then promptly forgotten. The highest recommendation for Norma Rae is this--it won't let you forget...
...times more deadly than the venom from a cobra if ingested, and even minute quantities can cause cancer years later. As testimony opened in a federal court in Oklahoma City last week, Dr. John Gofman, a scientist who has done pioneering work with plutonium, testified that Silkwood's lungs had contained almost twice as much of the dangerous metal as the amount that can induce cancer. "Anyone exposed to that amount of plutonium is married to lung cancer," he said. "It is then an inevitable process...
DIED. Dewey Bartlett, 59, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma; of lung cancer; in Tulsa, Okla. A millionaire oilman and rancher, Bartlett was elected his state's first Roman Catholic (and second Republican) Governor in 1966, and after losing a re-election bid four years later, won his Senate seat in 1972. Deeply conservative, he became best known in Washington as the Senate's staunchest defender of oil and gas company interests. Aware of his illness, Bartlett chose not to seek another term, retiring from the Senate in January...