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With the lower colon inactivated, surgeons removed the cancer. Apparently it had not spread. As a further precaution, Radiologist Orville Meland of the Los Angeles Tumor Institute implanted platinum needles containing tiny radium pellets. "For the next six months we simply waited," Powell recalls. "I had a lot of examinations but led a reasonably normal life. I did quite a few radio shows, though I couldn't make movies. The worst thing about the situation was the esthetics...
...micromicrocurie is roughly equivalent to one-millionth of one-millionth of the radioactivity of one gram of radium...
...commonest sites for them is in the mucous lining of the nose, where Mrs. Ribicoff had them. Doctors have tried to help similar patients with cauteries and radium, but always unsuccessfully, and Mrs. Ribicoff refused these treatments. Then she heard of the new operation devised by Ohio State University's Dr. William Howerton Saunders...
...Arab refugees. In 1959 he was President Eisenhower's choice for the ICA post, but Capitol Hill Republicans blocked the appointment because New Orleans-born Labouisse was a registered Connecticut Democrat. His second wife (the first died in 1945) is Eve Curie, author-daughter of the discoverers of radium...
Growth rates are at present a matter of controversy. They should be scientifically determined. The decay rate of radium is well established. At last we can point with pride to the national debt and say it is going down, its half-life pegged, not to the vagaries of partisan politics, but to the immutable laws of nature. The debt ceiling too would be beyond the reach of legislation, limited only by the critical mass of the uranium at Fort Knox...