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...pioneering therapy was developed by researchers at Milan's Istituto Nazionale Tumori, the Italian equivalent of the U.S. National Cancer Institute (which supported the study). Led by Dr. Gianni Bonadonna, who studied at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in the 1960s, the Milan team picked three drugs-cyclo-phosphamide, methotrexate and 5-fluorouracil (CMF). All were known to interfere with the growth of cells, especially of fast-multiplying cancer cells. But they proved to be more active than when used alone...
...editorial, Dr. James F. Holland, head of the cancer center at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, hailed the tests as a "work of monumental importance" that could save hundreds of thousands of lives in the coming decade. Americans, he added, "now can admire more in Milan than La Scala...
Fassi started skating when he was six, at a rink in Milan where his grandfather worked as an electrician. Though he was excellent in compulsory figures, he was never an inspired free skater; Fassi's best showing was a third in the 1953 world championships. He began coaching Italians in 1956, and later took on Europeans and Americans-including 1968 Gold Medalist Peggy Fleming...
...some other kind of fulfillment. His eight-year marriage to Actress Livia Giampaolo raises as many doubts as it solves problems; his two young sons are a puzzlement as well as a joy. He has tried to paint, and had a one-man show of his abstracts in Milan that was successful. "Giancarlo," says Job, "has tried painting and come back...
...sold to pay debts. Sindona says that he has also disposed of his holdings in three U.S. firms that constituted the last remnants of his domain: Talcott National Corp., a financial concern, and Argus Inc. and Inter-photo Corp., makers of photographic equipment. Late last year Sindona fled from Milan and after intermediate stops settled in New York, where he moved into the St. Regis-Sheraton Hotel -then, complaining that he found holes in his bedsheets, switched to the Pierre. From his suite there, he is fighting attempts by the Italian government to extradite him and put him on trial...