Word: lungful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When lung cancer killed Walt Elias Disney a decade ago, there were fears that the world of Disney would lose some of its wonder-and its profits. But before his own death in 1971, Roy Disney, who succeeded his younger brother, and a cadre of post-Walt executives had turned Walt Disney Productions into a thriving empire of fantasy. Today the company is bigger and richer than ever. Profits flow in from Disney's two successful theme parks, Disneyland in California and the magic kingdom at Walt Disney World in Florida, from film rentals and television, from re-releases...
...were six more, ranging in age from 39 to 82, scattered in towns all around the state. All of them had attended the Legion convention that was held in Philadelphia from July 21 to 24, and all had the same signs and symptoms-headaches, chest pains, high fevers and lung congestion...
...soon as the CDC received Pennsylvania's call for help. He supervised the collection, by a staff of 18 investigators, of the materials that his laboratory colleagues at headquarters would need: throat swabbings, garglings, blood samples, urine and fecal specimens and-from victims already dead -snippets of lung and other tissue. Batch after batch of these were collected and flown to Atlanta, where they were hand-carried...
Died. Sir Stanley Baker, 48, Welsh-born character actor who won fame as a cinema villain; of heart and lung disease; in Málaga, Spain. Baker was ready to follow his father into the coal mines when a movie producer spied him in a school play and offered him a screen test. Signed to his first big film contract in 1956, Baker played in such hit action movies as The Guns of Navarone (1961), Sodom and Gomorrah (1963) and Innocent Bystanders...
...such newly introduced American foods as maize and peanuts can be grown on marginal lands, China's population is virtually exploding. The increase in the 132 years since the founding of the dynasty: from 100 million to nearly 300 million. Just to the south of Ch'ien-lung's empire, a new civil war is raging among the Vietnamese. Chief victors so far: the three Tay Son brothers, Nhac, Lu and Hué, who started a rebellion four years ago against the tyrannical and inefficient regime of the Nguyen family. Originally bandits in the Robin Hood style...