Word: lunges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-day siege of sulphurous smog in Donora, Pa. (pop. 13,000), which struck down 5,910 and killed 18 in October 1948. Others, doctors think, may have serious cumulative effects on human health-which will not show up for perhaps 20 or 30 years. Some may cause lung disease and consequent failure. Dr. John R. Heller, president of New York's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, last week estimated that more than 15% of all cancers might be traced to environmental pollutants. Says Dr. Robert A. Kehoe of the University of Cincinnati: "The technology of our time...
Lemnitzer will replace ailing Air Force General Nathan F. Twining, 62, who underwent surgery for lung cancer last year. Twining, after serving the normal two-year term, stayed on for a second at President Eisenhower's urging. When Lemnitzer moves up, probably in late September, his successor as Army Chief of Staff will be Four-Star General George Henry Decker, 58, who is even calmer and quieter than Lemnitzer. "You could set a bomb off under his desk and he wouldn't turn a hair," a fellow officer once said. He, too, specialized in logistics during World...
...serving his second term as JCS chairman (he stayed on at Ike's behest), Air Force General Nate Twining, 62, will retire before his term expires next August, the White House announced last week. Twining underwent surgery for lung cancer last year and for a ruptured appendix in February. Likely successor: Army Chief of Staff Lyman L. Lemnitzer (TIME cover...
...Green have cancer originating in his left lung? The jurors' answer was yes. 2) Was this cancer the cause or one of the causes of his death? Yes again. 3) Was the smoking of Lucky Strikes a proximate, or one of the proximate, causes of the cancer? A third yes. 4) Could the American Tobacco Co.. on or before Feb. 1, 1956, "by the reasonable application of human skill and foresight, have known that users of Lucky Strike cigarettes, such as Green, would be endangered ... of contracting cancer of the lung...
...Lung-Cancer Tests: There is a moral question here-whether or not mice should smoke...