Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Black Lung Disease. In his campaign to familiarize the U.S. with the real costs of unchecked pollution, Johnson carries his message to businessmen, labor leaders, scientists and engineers, to conferences and conventions. "Man has created a new environment, but he has not created a new man," he argues. Johnson uses more than words to guard man against some of the threats of his self-imposed surroundings. Last spring, for example, after FDA scientists found unusually high levels of DDT in Lake Michigan coho salmon, Johnson helped to engineer a HEW order aimed at phasing out use of the chemical...
Cigarette tar painted on the backs of mice has long been known to produce cancer, but until now there has been no proof that lung cancer of the human type could be induced in any animal by forcing it to smoke. Thus, said the tobacco industry, there was no evidence that cigarette smoking caused lung cancer. The fact that heavy smokers are 20 times as likely to die of lung cancer as nonsmokers, said its spokesmen, was merely a "statistical association" that did not prove a cause-and-effect relationship...
Last week, in the hope of demolishing that argument, American Cancer Society researchers reported that of 36 beagles they had trained to smoke heavily, twelve had developed lung cancer. The cancer victims had smoked seven to nine unfiltered cigarettes a day over a 21-year period. That, Dr. E. Cuyler Hammond figured, was the equivalent of a man's smoking almost two packs a day for 18 years, after making allowance for the beagles' size and shorter life span. Two of the dogs' cancers were indistinguishable from human smokers' lung cancer; the remaining ten were...
Cancer Society spokesmen cautioned that the filter cigarette cannot "objectively be called a 'safe' cigarette" simply because the dogs kept on filter cigarettes did not develop cancer. But they conceded that with the filters, damage to lung tissue advances less rapidly. While animal experiments can never offer conclusive proof about disease in man, Auerbach has previously shown that human lungs undergo similar, progressive changes in proportion to the amount smoked. This, coupled with his beagle findings, makes an undeniably strong case...
Died. Hal March, 49, Broadway actor, onetime quizmaster on the infamous TV giveaway show The $64,000 Question; of pneumonia following the removal of a cancerous lung; in Los Angeles. A journeyman actor when he took over Question in 1955, March stayed with the show for three years before quitting in favor of a Broadway career. He had no connection with the 1959 quiz scandals, and went on to success as the star of the 1961 comedy Come Blow Your Horn...