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...Journal also contained an encouraging report about the effectiveness of chemotherapy after mastectomies. A study of 1,863 women whose cancer had spread beyond the breast revealed that recurrence rates dropped when a chemical called tamoxifen supplemented an established two-drug regimen known as PF (L-phenylalanine mustard and 5-fluorouracil). The effects were most striking in postmenopausal women, a group that in the past did not seem to benefit from chemotherapy. Says the study chairman, Dr. Bernard Fisher of the University of Pittsburgh: "In women over 50 years old with multiple lymph node involvement, 45% will have a reoccurrence...
Civil libertarians and ERA proponents were bitterly disappointed. Said Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women: "It perpetuates the myth that we can't cut the mustard, when we know that we can." She and others maintain that many men refuse to back the ERA and other guarantees of equality on the ground that since women do not bear certain burdens, like the draft, they are not entitled to all of society's benefits. Most scholars, however, do not view the decision as a major high-court retreat on sex discrimination. Says University of Virginia...
...says, "very few superstars in Movieland could cut that kind of mustard...
Striding into Geneva's mustard-colored Palais des Nations to make its debut at the annual session of the 43-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission, the crisp new U.S. delegation was received with keen anticipation. The assembled delegates were waiting to hear the first formal expression of the Reagan Administration's sharp break with the Carter human rights policy...
...appearance, livability and general ambiance, few locales can top this soft pretzel of a city. (Typical of Boston arrogance, Hub natives think they invented mustard and soft pretzels. Wrongo, Brahmin-breath. The combo was born here...