Word: villejuif
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last lap of the race, the major candidates of the four principal parties campaigned in a variety of styles. Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais, 57, showed up in Villejuif, a suburb in Paris' working-class Red Belt, to greet his fans in a gymnasium plastered with signs saying ENOUGH INJUSTICE! THE RICH MUST PAY! Displaying the bulldog bluntness that has made him the most entertaining of all the candidates, particularly on TV, Marchais inveighed against the "scandalously" rich. "Do you know there are agencies that specialize in the sale of Caribbean islands where...
...Georges Mathé, a leading cancer researcher at the Paul Brousse Hospital at Villejuif, near Paris, has been using BCG since 1964. He administers it as part of a double-barreled approach to treating patients with acute lymphoid leukemia, a cancer of the blood-forming tissues that tends to further depress and obliterate the patient's already weakened immune responses. Mathé begins with chemotherapy, using cell-destroying drugs that kill rapidly proliferating cells (and thus destroy cancer cells more quickly than normal ones) to reduce the size of cancers from billions of cells to 100,000 or so. Then he uses...