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...said Lewis Thomas, the distinguished physician and writer (The Lives of a Cell), soon after he became president of Manhattan's famed Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center four years ago. Last week his sardonic words rang truer still. After five years of exhaustive studies with mice, researchers at his world-renowned institute concluded that in spite of early indications it might control the spread of tumors, the controversial drug Laetrile showed no anticancer properties. Yet even while they were strengthening the scientific case against the apricot-pit extract, also known as vitamin B17, Laetrile's supporters were predicting...
Philip S. Sloan '77, another contestant, said he is not practicing for the event. "Wrist-wrestling is not exactly the type of thing you go into training for. Either you're good or you're not," he said...
...Cliff Sloan '79, a Social Studies concentrator said yesterday the requirement "cuts out any flexibility...
...necktie sported Democratic donkeys, and his step showed some of the old kick as former Vice President Hubert Humphrey checked out of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan. Three and a half weeks after an operation to remove his cancerous bladder, Humphrey said goodbye to his nurse and a crowd of well-wishers, then set off for Washington, D.C., to await election results in his campaign for a fifth Senate term. "I've had enough tests to go through 44 universities," said the Minnesotan. As for his regimen as a convalescent, bubbled Hubert: "I'll be swimming...
...shortly be released from Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, where he underwent surgery for removal of a cancerous bladder and lymph nodes...