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...floor, taking their water from a public faucet and using the street as a toilet. Many go through a whole lifetime without once taking a bath. Infants who play in garbage and excrement are themselves covered with flies, and they suffer from chronic dysentery, as well as lung diseases aggravated by dust and sand filtering into their homes. Despite free compulsory education, only about 25% of the population can read and write...
DIED. Thomas Schippers, 47, a top American conductor who had a special reverence for the romantic repertory and a knack for reviving neglected works; of lung cancer; in New York City. Schippers was fond of saying that he wished he had been born a century earlier, but he made up for lost time. He started playing the piano at four. At 20 he was chosen to conduct the world premiere of Gian Carlo Menotti's opera The Consul. He became Menotti's favorite conductor, a regular on the podium at New York's Metropolitan Opera...
Because of lack of employer contributions, pension payments will also be cut off for most of the 86,000 retired union members if the strike continues beyond Jan. 1. Some retirees take grim satisfaction in the fact that they contracted black lung, a generally incurable disease caused by inhaling coal dust. That ailment guarantees them lifelong disability payments. "If we lost our pension, I could survive," says Ashland ("Hawk") Howard, 62, a retiree in David, Ky. "But if I did not collect for black lung, I'd really be in trouble." Howard gets a pension of $225 a month...
Vellucci is reportedly in fair and stable condition following the removal of a blood clot from the lung last week. He has been hospitalized since December...
Experiments produced a "21 per cent reduction or destruction" of the lung walls of laboratory rats exposed to tobacco smoke, Dr. Gary L. Huber, leader of the research team, said yesterday...