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Soft Particles. For a while last week, medical circles were abuzz with a rumor that a U.S.-designed atom-powered pacemaker had also been implanted-in an American patient. That word proved to be premature; scientists at the National Heart and Lung Institute are still testing their prototypes in dogs...
Died. Thomas Butler, 57, the Scotland Yard detective who caught the "Great Train Robbers"; of lung cancer; in London. It took five years of tracking down clues from Britain to Morocco to South America before the Yard's "Gray Fox" finally nabbed the last of the 15 thieves who in August 1963 made off with more than $7,000,000 from a Glasgow-to-London mail train. Closing that case was the capstone of a 34-year career in which Butler, according to admiring colleagues, combined the intellect of Sherlock Holmes with the persistence of Inspector Maigret...
...coal miner's strike which will cut off the country's electricity is imminent if protective legislation for miners is not enforced, Joseph Yablonski II said yesterday at a rally in Cambridge for the West Virginia Black Lung Association...
Yesterday's rally-which took place at the Orson Welles Cinema-followed a screening of the film, The Molly Maguires. All proceeds from the film showing went to the Black Lung Association...
Arnold Miller, a coal miner running for the state legislature in West Virginia, said miners were dying by the hundreds of lung disease incurred under unhealthy working conditions. Dr. Donald Rasmussen, who works at the Appalachian Regional Hospital, said that increased dust control regulations would reduce the deaths from black lung disease by 90 per cent...