Word: myeloma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...secret is locked away in the Elysee, which brusquely turns away all queries. Unofficially, however, spokesmen claim that he suffers from painful arthritis and that his puffy appearance is the result of massive doses of cortisone. Others outside the government speculate, however, that the real malady may be multiple myeloma, a disease of the bone marrow that can also be treated with cortisone...
Hobson has shrunk five inches since doctors 18 months ago diagnosed his disease as multiple myeloma. Although hunched and incessantly hammered by pain, he is dictating a book on the black man's problems in America to his secretary at his town house in Southwest Washington. His words may be strident, but his views are not hysterically militant. "I call racism a rationalization for economic exploitation," he told Hathaway. "It's now become a part of our nervous system, a part of our institutions. But I think it goes further than the fact that...
Died. Edgar A.J. Johnson, 72, co-founder and former president of the Economic History Association who, as chief of the U.S. Economic Cooperation Administration mission to South Korea, directed relief and reconstruction programs in that country during the Korean War; of multiple myeloma; in Washington...