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...skiing and attending the ballet. But Mary (not her real name) also has something that casts a shadow over her otherwise happy life. She is figuratively carrying a time bomb in her neck, never knowing whether-or when-it will go off. As an infant in Milwaukee, she received X-ray treatments to shrink her thymus gland, which doctors suspected was causing breathing problems. As a result of that medical vogue, she must now live with the knowledge that she is at least 20 times more likely than the average person to develop cancer of the thyroid, which is normally...
...into the early 1950s, doctors considered low doses of X ray a safe, effective way to shrink enlarged thymus glands or adenoids and destroy infected tonsils. They used the technique on thousands of small children. But in the early 1950s, after doctors began finding a high correlation between the X-ray treatment and the later development of growths (both benign and malignant) on thyroid glands, they hastily abandoned the procedure. In 1958, Dr. C. Lenore Simpson of the Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo confirmed their growing fears by reporting that children who had received X-ray treatments were...
With a job that requires no skills beyond a healthy chest x-ray, the employer could have fired the whole lot that Sunday morning, and hired enough beer and dog men to work the next homestand without any difficulty...
...Christ, he was pursuing about nine different actions at one time. If you look at his court calendar, it's mystifying that he was able to make as many effective appearances as he did. It was a marathon performance under the most intense pressure and in the full X-ray glare of the media." For all this, St. Clair had resigned from his law firm and served at a $42,500 annual salary-far below the estimated $200,000 he would have earned in Boston...
...appreciate them acting as if secretarial work is the lowest form of human endeavor. Sisterhood across class lines is a myth." Nor do many blue-collar women share the white-collar feminist's interest' in rising to high-level jobs. "We're laundry workers, X-ray technicians and the like," explains Elinor Glenn, of North Hollywood, Calif., a member of Local 434 of the Service Employees' International. "Our women are already out of the kitchen and it's not romantic. It's a matter of bucks." Says Union Member Anne Lipow: "Labor women...