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...Texas, Democrats campaigned hard for the re-election of State Senator John Wilson, even though the 43-year-old legislator died of lung cancer nearly two months ago. Wilson's Republican opponent, J. Everett Ware, did not slack off either. "Being that there was a dead man on the ballot, I felt obliged to make a serious campaign," he said. Since Wilson had died 24 hours past the deadline to change the ballot, Democratic officials had to support his posthumous candidacy with the hope of winning so they would have a chance to retain the seat in the subsequent...
DIED. Jacques Tati, 75, whimsical French film maker, forever associated with his gangly, amiable and bewildered persona Monsieur Hulot; of a lung blood clot. A droll mime, Tati made films (Mr. Hulot's Holiday, 1954; the Oscar-winning Mon Onde, 1958; four others) that were meticulously wrought explosions of philosophical slapstick with little dialogue and less plot, suggesting that modern values are topsy-turvy. Said he: "What I am trying to prove is that at bottom everyone is amusing...
DIED. Waverley Root, 79, prolific Paris-based foreign correspondent and author of compendious books on haute cuisine; of lung disease; in Paris. Despite writing such weighty tomes as his two-volume The Secret History of the War and The Truth about Wagner, Root was savored most for gastronomic texts like The Food of France (1958). Root's cardinal rule for eating in Paris: Follow the taxi drivers...
Competing laboratories are racing to identify the genes capable of inducing cancer in human cell cultures. About a dozen such genes have already been isolated from leukemic cells and from tumors of the lung, bladder, colon and breast. Many of these genes are nearly identical to oncogenes isolated years earlier from cancer viruses. Moreover, certain tumors (colon and lung carcinomas, for example) were found to contain the same oncogene. This suggests that perhaps several dozen genes are responsible for producing the 100 or more known forms of cancer...
...oncogenes in causing tumors in the body itself remains unproved. Evidence is, however, mounting. Researchers have known for two decades that certain forms of cancer are associated with certain visible changes in the 23 pairs of chromosomes found in human cells. Recent studies suggest, for example, that in some lung cancers a piece is often missing from chromosome No. 3. Better-documented changes occur in certain leukemias and lymphomas. In one form of chronic leukemia, a piece of chromosome 22 changes place with a piece of chromosome 9. In most patients with a cancer known as Burkitt's lymphoma...