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Died. Fred Hutchinson, 45, hot-tempered, harddriving manager of the Cincinnati Reds baseball team, a pennant winner in 1961; of lung cancer, which forced him to retire last August; in Bradenton...
...overall number of cancer deaths is increasing slightly: 285,000 last year, 290,000 estimated in 1964, and 295,000 expected in 1965. Different kinds of cancer are increasing at different rates; lung cancer, once relatively rare, is rising fastest, and now for the first time displaces tumors of the colon and rectum as the most frequent cause of cancer death...
...predict the A.C.S. statisticians, 47,000 Americans (40,400 men and 6,600 women) will die of lung cancer, with 52,000 new cases expected to be diagnosed. Cancer of the colon and rectum is still more common, with 73,000 new cases anticipated, but less deadly - 43,000 deaths expected. Even if lung cancer is detected before it has spread, only 21% of victims survive five years after surgery. If the cancer has already spread at the time of operation, the five-year survival rate drops...
Cambridge Circus. A good guffaw nowadays is hard to find. Onstage and on film comedy has gone cosmic-as if dramatists were engaged in a campaign to laugh wars, capital punishment and lung cancer out of existence. The big news about Cambridge Circus is that it thinks small and carries a big slapstick. The manic, unassuming young graduates of Cambridge University who wrote and perform in the revue would rather tickle a rib than wash a brain, and more often than not they are indescribably funny...
...soon result in a revolutionary unit to supply an enriched mixture of 35% oxygen for military field hospitals as well as in improved breathing systems for spacecraft and submarines. Other possibilities: space suits that cool off astronauts even as they perspire; a substitute for the very expensive heart-lung machine used in open-heart surgery. In this application, the membrane would separate blood and oxygen, perform some of the same functions as a human lung...