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There is a revivalist touch to his speechmaking: he starts slowly and sanely, ends up at a lung-bursting fever pitch that even includes personal attacks on Salazar himself: "I'll throw him out!" He has also challenged Salazar in the ex-professor's own field, economics: "Where did all the money go that we got for the cork, the wolfram, the sardines that we sold to both sides during the war? Only into the hands of the hundred privileged families...
Died. F. Hugh Herbert, 60, Vienna-born playwright (Kiss and Tell, The Moon Is Blue) and screenwriter (Sitting Pretty; Scudda Hoo, Scudda Hay); of lung cancer; in Los Angeles...
People who doubt that heavy cigarette smoking is a major cause of lung cancer have argued that there could be no real proof until comparison was made between groups of smokers and nonsmokers who are identical in all other major respects. Some have insisted that the villain in the lung-cancer picture is industrial air pollution. This week, under Los Angeles' smoggy pall, researchers reported on a study designed to refute both arguments...
...Adventists made up 8.8% of the total, and were comparable in age, sex, occupations, residence and other key characteristics, they might have been expected to be afflicted by disease in the same proportion. Not so, Drs. Wynder and Lemon found. Items: ¶Against an expected ten cases of lung cancer among Adventists, there was only one, a man who died of lung cancer in 1955. He had smoked a pack a day for 25 to 30 years before joining the church in 1941, then had sworn off. (As a former metal worker, he may have been exposed to cancer-causing...
...those of the breast, prostate, stomach, colon, rectum and uterus, as well as leukemia, occurred at just about the same rates in both Adventist and non-Adventist patients. This uniformity led Drs. Wynder and Lemon to conclude that heavy cigarette smoking and hard drinking are indeed major factors in lung or mouth cancer and in hastening death from atherosclerosis (hardening) of the coronary arteries. "We propose," they said, "that smoking, though not causing atherosclerosis as such, adds to the already damaging effect of atherosclerosis upon the circulatory system." As for air pollution, they noted that more than half the subjects...