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Harvard is currently taking precautionary measures in its Museum of Comparitive Zoology to reduce hazards--including lung diseases and cancer--caused by asbestos used in the building's construction...
Installation and use of asbestos was banned by the federal government in 1973, when researchers concluded that it increased the risk of cancer and other lung diseases...
...responsible representatives in constant touch with the grass roots, who would do their duty and then step aside. Less romantically, Baker, a rich man when he came to the Senate, wants to replenish his personal coffers. His wife of 31 years, Joy, was successfully operated on last year for lung cancer. A pragmatic, contradictory, intensely private man, who once promised, "I'll be a political President, but I will try to ennoble politics," Baker may also have simply found the pressures of last December's lameduck session (which he strongly advised Reagan against) too much for a reasonable...
Although he is still listed in serious condition and has some lung and kidney problems, Clark is improving daily, according to the hospital. He has been moved from isolation to an intensive care unit, which he shares with other patients. Clark is frequently visited by his wife Una Loy, who lives in a private suite three floors away...
DIED. John L. Swigert Jr., 51, plucky, earnest Apollo 13 astronaut, who was due to be sworn in this week as a Republican Congressman from Colorado; of lung and bone-marrow cancer; in Washington, D.C. Chosen as a replacement one day before unlucky 13's launching in 1970, the civilian astronaut coolly announced, when an oxygen tank exploded, "Houston, we've got a problem," then initiated emergency procedures he had helped develop. Turning to politics, he spent most of his life savings in an unsuccessful bid for a senatorial nomination in 1978, but came back last year...