Word: tumors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wire story on the Harvard violence, and his brother wanted to know why Mac was involved. The arrest of his brother didn't hurt Lester Evans politically; he became lieutenant governor and would certainly have made it at least to the governor's chair. But he developed a brain tumor that killed him in office. His brother's experience, as well as his father's career in politics and the foreign service that ended in self-imposed exile in South America because of charges that he had collaborated with communists, led Mac to suspect that politics eats good men alive...
Died. Richard Bissell, 63, witty novelist and co-author of the hit Broadway musical The Pajama Game; of a brain tumor; in Dubuque, Iowa...
Self-defense efforts are scorned by veteran attorneys. Asks Boston Lawyer-Author George Higgins: "If you had a brain tumor, would you operate on yourself?" But there are potential benefits. Judges sometimes tolerantly allow self-defenders to make statements, particularly in summation, for which a lawyer would be ruled in contempt of court. Moreover, by appearing to be bewildered by court procedures, a defendant can occasionally arouse sympathy for the underdog in judge or jury...
...past 18 months, Susan Foss has been paralyzed from the neck down with a spinal tumor. Anywhere else in the world, the pretty, 20-year-old Auckland, New Zealand, housewife would probably be confined to a hospital for the rest of her life. Yet, except for a few hours each day when she undergoes physical and occupational therapy at a nearby hospital, Susan spends all her time at home. Her routine needs are met either by her husband Chris or by a nurse and a home aide who regularly visit the Foss household...
...principal lines of defense against lesser hypothetical risks. They establish four levels of physical containment; these range from standard laboratory precautions (dubbed "P-l") for experiments in the lowest-risk category-say, injecting harmless bacterial genes into E. coli-to ultrasecure laboratories ("P-4") for work with animal tumor viruses or primate cells. At present, two new P-4 facilities are almost ready. One is a gleaming white trailer parked behind a bar bed-wire fence on the grounds of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md. It has a totally sealed environment, airlocks, decontamination systems, showers for workers...