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Hopes for a cancer cure rose a notch last spring when word got out that doctors were giving serious and hopeful attention to a white powder named Krebiozen (TIME, April 9)-even though the experts carefully said it was too soon to make any claims for it. Last week the A.M.A.'s Committee on Research reported its own investigation of 100 patients treated with Krebiozen: only two showed improvement even for a little while. 98 got no benefit. 44 are now dead. A.M.A. conclusion: Krebiozen is no good...
Fashion Note. In Omaha, cops voted 133 to 27 to change the color of their official necktie from black to "powder puff blue...
...could he have shot himself, then returned the rifle to his lap? But if he had been murdered by someone who set the fires to destroy evidence, why hadn't he resisted while the rifle was held so close to his head that it left a powder burn...
...Buren of Fort Worth's Carswell Air Force Base was tied with four others after a perfect 200-for-200 score in the All Gauge division. He had lost out last year because he missed one bird. But this year he never wavered. When the din and the powder smell had faded away, he had raised his score to 250 out of 250 in the shootoff, to become the first three-time champion (1948, 1949) in National Skeet history...
...Animas River canyon two ancient locomotives were fired up until the safety valves were blowing under a full head of steam. Five cars were hooked on to one engine, two on to the other; in addition, the locomotives carried 300 sticks of dynamite garnished with 30 Ibs. of black powder. Portentously, [rom about a fifth of a mile apart, the panting engines began to roll slowly toward each other on the same narrow-gauge track. The engineers in the cabs pushed the throttles open, then jumped clear as the trains picked up speed. A few seconds later the canyon rocks...