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...certainly will be used to air a variety of Latin American grievances, such as Argentina's demand for the Falkland Islands and Guatemala's demand for British Honduras. But the noisiest grievances will presumably come from the host. Panamanian Strongman Omar Torrijos calls the Canal Zone "a tumor that must go through the operating room...
...injecting patients with mixed bacterial toxins to induce responses that might alter the course of the malignancy, and without fully understanding what he was doing, succeeded. In 1893, he injected his toxin into a 16-year-old boy with inoperable cancer and was rewarded with a demonstrable success: the tumor shrank and, over a period of a few months, disappeared. He treated some 250 other patients who also improved and survived for another five to 72 years. But despite the results, Coley's work, which was far ahead of its time, generally went unrecognized...
Overkill. But it still has a long way to go. Doctors are not yet sure whether the commonly used methods, which rely primarily on nonspecific immune stimulation to produce selective tumor destruction, represent a form of immune-logical overkill. Says Klein: "It's sort of like alerting the whole damned U.S. Navy to keep one foreign destroyer from entering one harbor. It's effective, but it may be unnecessary." Furthermore, doctors cannot make immunotherapy work for all patients. They have no sure way of knowing who will respond until they begin treatment...
Married. Sandy Duncan, 26, sunny heroine of TV's Sandy Duncan Show until its cancellation last month; and Dr. Thomas C. Calcattera, 35, California surgeon who removed a tumor from behind Duncan's left eye in 1971; both for the second time; in Carson City...
...with artists whose products are unacknowledged variants on hers. Last week, a posthumous retrospective of her work opened at Manhattan's Guggenheim-if "retrospective" is not a pompous term for a view of five years' work. We will never know what Hesse might have done if the tumor had not rioted in her brain, killing...