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Summer Session Kansan
Friday, July 10, 1964
Heavy Drinking Seen Likely Cancer Cause
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Statistical science now has added heavy drinking to cigarette smoking as a possible cause of cancer. It was done in part through sex ratios in a formidable statistical base, that is, almost 65,000 cancer cases.
If men and women were truly equal in all respects you'd expect cancer to attack those organs they have in common in more or less equal proportions. It is well known in cancer science that males have more cancers in those organs than females do.
But the new statistics turned up astonishing differences. For the main part of the throat, there were 28 male cancers for each female cancer. For the voice-box alone, the larynx, the proportion was 27.4 to 1. For the food tube, the esophagus, it was 16.6 to 1.
THE STATISTICIANS then figured in the personal habits of all these people with cancers. They found a "very strong relationship" between cancers of the throat and the voice box with both heavy smoking and heavy drinking. By and large the men had these habits and the women didn't.
For the esophagus cancer the relationship with smoking was merely "strong" whereas it was "very strong" with drinking. That was plausible anatomically but "strong" and "very strong" relationships with cancers of the tongue and of the mouth in general were not plausible statistically.
That was so because of drastic drops in the sex ratios. For each female tongue cancer there were only 9.3 male ones; for each female mouth cancer, there were 8.6 male. Since these organs can have as much contact with smoke and/or strong drink as the throat and larynx one would expect the sex ratio to be similar.
The ratios became similar when the statisticians broke tongue and mouth cancers down into sub-sites. For the floor of the mouth, where both smoke and drink linger, the ration was 24.5 male to 1 female; for the base of the tongue, where exposure is at the maximum, it was 15.3 to 1. For the middle portion of the esophagus it was 20.4 to 1.
THE STOMACH was a telling organ for comparing. Taken as a whole the sex ratio of stomach cancers was a mere 2.3 to 1 which is not statistically significant. But when only cancers of that portion of the stomach which connects with the esophagus were compared, the ratio jumped to 5 to 1, which is significant.
The study was reported to the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md., by a team of statisticians of the French National Hygiene Institute of Paris. The statistical base were patients of the French National Cancer hospitals
Kennedy Transferred To Boston Hospital
NORTHAMPTON, Mass.—(UPI)—Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, strapped in a metal frame to keep his broken back in place, was transferred in a drizzling rain yesterday to New England Baptist Hospital at Boston.
Kennedy, whose back was broken in a plane crash June 19, was wheeled out of Cooley Dickinson Hospital to an ambulance for the 100-mile trip to Boston.
The 32-year-old Massachusetts Democrat managed a smile and wave for the 50 persons, mostly newsmen, who gathered in the hospital's ambulance area.
'36 Election Marked Farley as Jokester
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—James A. Farley is a fast man with a quip.
In 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Alfred M. Landon, who carried only Maine and Vermont for a total of eight electoral votes. The day after the election Farley appeared at a news conference and was asked to comment on the landslide.
"My comment," Farley said, "is that as Maine goes so goes Vermont."
between 1943 and 1960. The team was led by Robert Flamant.
"For many of these organs, this theory coincides with the usual clinical findings or with some logical conclusions that can be drawn from anatomical and physiological observations," they said. "It is often noted that patients with cancers of the base of the tongue or floor of the mouth are usually heavy smokers and drinkers."
"Gastric cancer is especially interesting. First, the sex-ratio data are particularly reliable. Second, tobacco and alcohol are quite likely to act on the fundus cardia region because it is next to the esophagus."
New Computer To Be Installed
By Chip Rouse
A new computer is scheduled to be installed the week of July 20 at the Computation Center in Summerfield Hall.
The new IBM 7040 computer will leave Minneapolis on Friday July 17, and will travel to Lawrence by truck. It is currently at the IBM Data Center in Minneapolis.
The 7040 is a binary machine and is able to add up to 66,000 five digit numbers per second, whereas the older IBM 1620 adds at the rate of 1100 five digit numbers per second.
THE NEW MODEL is an increase in overall capability of approximately 5 to 10 times greater than the current computer.
Richard G. Hetherington, director of the Computation Center, states that there are three prime requisites in considering a computer. Number one is gross size, two is maximum speed and third, but far from least, is the cost involved.
A 1401 computer will accompany the 7040 on its trip from the Land of Sky Blue Waters. The added model will be used to prepare magnetic tapes to be used in the bigger machine.
THE 7040-1401 combination will take up approximately twice as much space as is now required for the 1620. However, in a computer, physical dimensions are not as important as overall capacity.
The difference in cost between the 7040 and the 1620 has been announced as a factor of three, with the 7040 listing at the greatest expense.
The 1620 will be placed in the High Energy laboratory of the Physics department but is scheduled to be used solely as research apparatus and not in any way as a computer.
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Antic fun and bloody horror are on tap in Stratford, Conn., where the American Shakespeare Festival Theater is embarked on its 10th season in this 400th anniversary year of the birth of The Bard.
Festival Honors Shakespeare's 400th Birthday
The organization has come up with productions of "Much Ado About Nothing" and "The Tragedy of King Richard the Third" that, despite certain shortcomings here and there, have enough merit to warrant recommendation.
"HAMLET," THE THIRD and final addition to the repertoire, will be introduced early in July. If it turns out to be good, there will be something for everyone at Stratford this summer.
A lot of people can't stand Shakespeare's comedies, and some of them do try patience. "Much Ado," in spite of its two-headed plot line, is one of the better ones, and I think that even the antagonistic will enjoy much of this Stratford production.
The production is weak in its Claudio, played by handsome Frank G. Converse, whose work could be corrected easily by director Allen Fletcher. The conception and casting of the role of the villainous Don John is an error.
IF NOTHING ELSE, they can relish the fine counterpoint provided by confirmed bachelor Benedick and man-contemptuous Beatrice as interpreted by Philip Bosco and Jacqueline Brookes. These two do a beautiful job. There is good material in these roles, and the two players make the most of it in a rollicking manner.
BUT THERE IS good stuff in the Leonato of excellent Patrick Hines, the Don Pedro of Douglas Watson and, especially, in the Dogberry as played by Rex Everhart, who makes his malapropic, bumbling arm of the law a joy.
Director Fletcher has pulled out all the horror stops in staging "Richard III," which is fairly gruesome no matter how it is played.
BUT THE RICHARD, in the person of handsome Douglas Watson, is the most physically repulsive I've ever seen, with more deformatives than usually are assigned to the monarch whose defeat by Henry Tudor ended the War of the Roses.
the play, no matter who does it, is one of action and little poetry, and Fletcher has concentrated on making it move. Watson does his job well, and there are good contributions by Jacqueline Brookes, David Byrd, Rex Everhart, Patricia Peardon, Tom Sawyer, Margaret Phillips, Anne Draper and John Devlin.
In Zanzibar, black African nationalists are waging a dramatic struggle to turn back a Soviet and Red Chinese bid to make of the tiny spice island a Communist bridgehead to the whole of East Africa.
By Phil Newsom UPI Foreign News Analyst
Zanzibar Sees Battle To Block Reds' March
It is a struggle largely lost in the din of noisier battles for Cyprus and South Viet Nam or Indonesia's confrontation with Malaysia.
But it is significant and becomes the more so because Africans themselves have recognized communism's threat to new-found freedoms.
IT IS BEING led by mild-mannered Tanganyika President Julius K. Nyerere, who on April 23 engineered the merger of Zanzibar with Tanganyika for the beginning of what he hopes will be an East African federation composed of Tanganyika, Zanzibar. Kenya and, finally, Uganda.
At the start, not much would have been given for the chances of the merger's ultimate success, and even now the issue remains in doubt.
Zanzibar obtained its independence from Britain last December and was in existence scarcely a month before its government fell to armed revolt.
PROMINENT AMONG the revolutionaries were fighters trained in Communist Cuba.
High up in their leadership were Abdullah Kassim Hanga, Moscow-trained, and Abdul Rahman Mohammed, a fire-brand known as Babu, trained in Peking and a devoted admirer of Red China's Mao Tse-tung and Cuba's "Che" Guevara.
In the new "People's Republic of Zanzibar," Babu became minister of external affairs and defense and Hanga a vice-president under President Abedi Amani Karume.
Karume, it was widely held, was but a figurehead.
BUT WITH BABU out of the country on a shopping mission to Peking, it was with Karume that Nyerere engineered the surprise coup that linked Zanzibar with Tanganyika and undertook the first step to block Communist influence.
Success for Nyerere would constitute a major defeat for communism in Africa.
In Zanzibar, the Chinese and the Russians have pushed their own quarrel into the background.
The Russians have been running the port and harbor and training the army.
THE CHINESE have been in charge of agriculture, and from their heavily guarded embassy the Communist East Germans have taken over direction of finance, education and information.
For the East Germans, Zanzibar was of particular importance. Their embassy there was the first to be
Gradually the changes are being made.
established outside the Communist bloc, and for them it constituted a measure of international recognition.
Babu has been removed from his important post as minister of external affairs. Marxists also have been removed from other subsidiary posts.
A PARTICULAR blow to the Communists was Nyerere's action downgrading all Zanzibar embassies to the status of consulates.
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