Word: lungfuls
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...LEFT the theater, a Reuben look-alike pressed a pamphlet into my hand. Urging a J.P. Stevens boycott, it outlined that company's many offenses. Like many people, I had always professed undying concern about unions and 'brown lung' and then promptly forgotten. The highest recommendation for Norma Rae is this--it won't let you forget...
...times more deadly than the venom from a cobra if ingested, and even minute quantities can cause cancer years later. As testimony opened in a federal court in Oklahoma City last week, Dr. John Gofman, a scientist who has done pioneering work with plutonium, testified that Silkwood's lungs had contained almost twice as much of the dangerous metal as the amount that can induce cancer. "Anyone exposed to that amount of plutonium is married to lung cancer," he said. "It is then an inevitable process...
DIED. Dewey Bartlett, 59, former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma; of lung cancer; in Tulsa, Okla. A millionaire oilman and rancher, Bartlett was elected his state's first Roman Catholic (and second Republican) Governor in 1966, and after losing a re-election bid four years later, won his Senate seat in 1972. Deeply conservative, he became best known in Washington as the Senate's staunchest defender of oil and gas company interests. Aware of his illness, Bartlett chose not to seek another term, retiring from the Senate in January...
...Unlike the situation for smokers, where the risk of contracting lung cancer can remain for decades after one stops smoking, the risk of contracting endometrial cancer seems to decline rapidly after women stop taking estrogen,' Rothman, who collaborated on the research and writing of the article, said...
...John Wayne, 71, the legendary "Duke" of Hollywood filmdom; with cancer; in Los Angeles. In a 9½-hour operation, Wayne's stomach was removed, but laboratory tests showed that the malignancy had spread to his gastric lymph nodes. The patient, whose cancerous left lung was removed in 1964, accepted the news with true grit. "I've licked the Big ¶before," he said. "And I'll lick it again...