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...underscore how unpredictable the disease can be and why regular checkups are so important for the middle-aged men who are most susceptible. Prostate-cancer rates have been rising steadily for the past two decades; it is now for men the second most deadly form of cancer, after lung disease, striking 300,000 Americans each year and killing 40,000. Although doctors can easily treat a growing cancer before it spreads, many men discover their condition the way Mitterrand did--after the cancer has already metastasized...
...smaller house. They tracked bogus leads to Oklahoma and Nevada, visited the Seattle headquarters of a motorcycle gang rumored to have snatched Amy, persuaded Texas officials to exhume an unidentified body and got Unsolved Mysteries to air a TV segment on the case in 1992. After Ned died of lung cancer two years ago, Billig, who also suffered from the disease, still prodded the fbi and local police to stay on the case. "She'd be a good cop," says Miami homicide detective Jack Calvar. "She knows how to work the system." Her voluminous notes and recordings of Johnson calls...
HOSPITALIZED. ANDREAS PAPANDREOU, 76, Prime Minister of Greece; with kidney and lung failure and pneumonia; in Athens. At week's end Papandreou was in stable condition, but required the use of life support...
DIED. DAVID MCLEAN, 73, actor; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. The appropriately rugged McLean saddled up for appearances on the TV series Bonanza and Gunsmoke, as the star of the short-lived Tate--and in numerous Marlboro-cigarette spots. Ironically, he is the second "Marlboro Man" to die of lung cancer. DIED. ELENI VLACHOU, 84, publisher; in Athens. Vlachou earned a journalistic reputation with a witty political column in her father's daily Kathimerini before assuming control of the paper in 1951. She shut the paper down in the late '60s in protest against the military dictators ruling Greece...
What made Coltrane great? For some it was his sheer lung power and gale-wind force. "'Trane was the loudest, fastest saxophonist I've ever heard...he was possessed when he put that horn in his mouth," said trumpeter Miles Davis, who made about a dozen albums with him. For others it was his highly textured "sheets of sound," a rapid-fire, rhythmic attack that conjured up aural images of runaway trains, meteor showers and volcanic eruptions. Still others point to Coltrane's importance in bringing African and Eastern influences to jazz and helping bridge the worlds of jazz...