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DIED. Robert Alan Aurthur, 56, television playwright, who wrote for such 1950s series as Philco Television Playhouse and Studio One; of lung cancer; in New York City. A Marine combat correspondent during World War II, Aurthur wrote short fiction for The New Yorker before becoming one of TV's Big Four dramatists (the other three: Rod Serling, Reginald Rose, Paddy Chayefsky). Aurthur's award-winning credits included Man on the Mountain top (1954) and A Man Is Ten Feet Tall...
...Special Public Service Award was given to U.S. Ambassador-at-Large Elliott L. Richardson and Dr. Theodore Cooper of Manhattan's Cornell University Medical College. In 1972, when Richardson was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare and Cooper was director of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the two inaugurated the National High Blood Pressure Education Program. With its educational and medical contributions, the program has since helped cut the U.S. death rate from heart disease by 15%, from stroke...
Both local opponents of the plant and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering introduced experts at the hearings who testified that levels above 200 micrograms per cubic meter of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere will aggravate lung ailments and reduce immunity to disease, particularly among children and the elderly...
...reported that cancer death rates seem to be leveling off and, for some forms of the disease, actually declining, as in the case of stomach cancer (down more than 60%), colon-rectum (down 5.6% for men, 22.5% for women) and uterine cancer (down 59.5%). But the death rate for lung cancer, which has been repeatedly linked to cigarette smoking, has grown by 200%. Cancer Society officials attribute at least part of that sharp rise to the great increase in the number of women smokers in the past few decades...
Despite the risks of cigarettes, many smokers seem all too willing to take the gamble. In a recent survey, the A.C.S. found that 52% of smokers believe they will get lung cancer. Even so, that fear did not make them kick the habit...