Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week the butler found her third husband, an electrical contractor named Barnett Garrison, lying in a pool of blood outside Candy's Houston mansion. He had fallen off the third-floor roof some time during the night. With brain damage, a broken hip, broken ribs and a collapsed lung, Garrison was in no condition to explain what he was doing on the roof in the wee hours with a pistol, ammunition and over a thousand dollars in his pocket. Neither was Candy. She was locked up in her bedroom, having hysterics. Police said it was apparently all an accident...
Died. Max Theiler, 73, South African-born virologist who as a researcher for the Rockefeller Foundation won the 1951 Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine for his success in developing a vaccine against yellow fever; of lung cancer; in New Haven, Conn...
...Moscow, the Soviets will send the U.S. three drugs, which they have been using to treat cancers of certain white blood cells in the lymphatic system, thyroid and bladder cancers, and breast and ovarian tumors. In return, the U.S. will provide the Soviets with three drugs used experimentally against lung, skin, brain and intestinal cancers. The scientists will also trade research personnel and furnish each other with volumes of technical data concerning the safety and effectiveness of the chemicals. The Soviet scientific material must be translated and evaluated before the drugs can be tried in this country. This means that...
...months following his discharge from the hospital, Harris looked morbidly toward death. He sold his yacht, visited gun shops to look over the stock, went to the city morgue to view the bodies of suicides. Then a friend requested that he visit an acquaintance hospitalized with lung cancer, and the visit changed his attitude. "He was as afraid as I was," said Harris after talking with the man. "He seemed very appreciative when I left...
...convinced that the value of periodic examinations is provable is Dr. Ernest L. Wynder, the first physician to produce firm evidence that cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer, who is now a crusader for preventive medicine. As a director of the New York-based American Health Foundation, Wynder has persuaded six corporations* to finance the Health Maintenance Center, which opened early this month in mid-Manhattan. It is the last word not only in multiphasic testing but also in automation...