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E2 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1994 MEDiCliiE IN THE People Compiled from staff and wire reports by Harold Wiley Disease suffered by Jackie Onassis SLOWER THAN A SPEEDING BULLET Fabio to visit Union Station Main Stage killer is a common Associated Press Human cannonball David Smith gets blasted from the muzzle of a cannon a contraption he designed and built himself during a performance this week with the Bentley Brothers Circus in Merced, Calif. He's been doing his man-as-projectile act for 20 years. Fabio fans, listen up: The hearts throb model for romance-novel covers now an author in his own right will be at Union Station at 3 p.m. May 28. Kristi Lee of Fabio WFBg-FM (94.7) will be emcee for his appearance on the Main Stage.

While he's at Union Station, his autograph-signing time will be limited, although autographed Fabio calendars will be on sale. To put the appropriate month-of-May automotive twist to his appearance, his car the one that will carry him In the "500" Festival Parade, will be on display on the Meridian Street overpass from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday and from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.

May 28. Angry Bill Gates walks out on Connie Chung The most famous nerd in the country met a famous TV anchor-woman Thursday and walked out on her. CBS's Connie Chung was questioning Bill Gates about his business and personal life during a 13-minute taped segment of her Eye to Eye show when the billionaire chairman of Microsoft Corp. abruptly ended an interview In his office in San Francisco. But it wasn't her questions about his wealth or his new wife, Microsoft manager Mellnda French, that set Gates off.

He got angry when Chung repeated a statement from a competitor comparing Gates' style of business to a street fight. "Why be a mouthpiece for that silliness?" Gates asked Chung before announcing, "well, I'm done." Gates refused Chung's request to continue, stood up and took off his microphone. A moment later, the cameras showed Gates stabbing his finger at Chung and berating her for repeating the charges of Gary Clow, president of Stac Electronics Inc. That firm recently won a $120 million judgment against Microsoft for using Stac technology. "A lot of people make the analogy that competing with Bill Gates is like playing hardball," Clow said on the show.

"I'd say it's more like a knife fight." HUES Continued from Page 1 stretches from Japan to Europe to Disney World. Architectural "Boom, baby!" Graves' accomplishment in the Thomson headquarters building, the showpiece of the two-building site, is even more impressive in view of the awkward site and pedestrian basic plan that he inherited from his architectural predecessors. Taking Thomson to this level of beauty is the architectural equivalent of the Pacers' season. Clayton emphasized the altogether business-like marketing attitude that went into the decision to hire Graves. He called the design "living proof of Thomson's commitment to innovative design.

It's built into every product and into the environment in which we work." Graves called upon Indiana's agricultural heritage to explain the larger metaphoric meaning of the checkerboard design of subdued gray and green that covers the two wings of the headquarters building. He suggested that this design -J V- Heckman, WIBC settle age-discrimination suit An age-discrimination lawsuit that former W1BC-AM (1070) News Director Fred Heckman had filed against the station was resolved Friday to Heckman's satisfaction, according to his attorney. James D. Brythe said the terms of the agreement give Heckman, 70, the intellectual property rights to the title My Town Indy, a regular feature in which the 35-year news director reflected on local events and celebrities. He also can begin broadcasting again in Indianapolis once he finds other employment.

Blythe declined to comment on any financial settlement. Heckman, who filed the lawsuit In Marion Superior Court in January, had asked for $680,000 In compensatory damages, as well as unspecified punitive damages. WIBC General Manager Tom Durney deferred comment to officials of Sconnix Broadcasting, the station's owner. William Jaeger, chief financial officer for Sconnix, said the company would not comment on the settlement. Goldthwait charged in 'Tonight Show' caper Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait was charged Friday with two misdemeanors that could result In jail terms for setting a chair ablaze on arises from childhood memories of the farmlands along North Meridian Street and more recent, airborne visions of the great grid that divides and subdivides the Midwest and weaves the Inescapable fabric of our ground-bound movements.

The rural metaphor is reinforced. Graves said, by the large, volumetric, red block in the center of the design, subtly conjuring the great barns of Indiana. In the center of the red is a deep cadmium yellow entrance topped by a ceremonial porch supporting a double row of six, three-story-high columns that rise nearly the entire height of the red facade to align with the top of the wings. Understanding yellow That yellow, Graves said, represents the sun. "Back at School 80, my teacher told me, 'If you're going to draw the sun, make it yellow.

People won't understand unless you make it The facades of the two long sides are essentially the same. The northwest side seen from the parking lot is, if anything, even more elegant with its punched Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma becoming more common, but some kinds also are more curable now. By Stacey Burling KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS The good news about non-Hodgkin's lymphoma the disease that killed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is that it no longer kills everyone who gets it. Only about 30 years ago, aggressive forms of the disease were invariably fatal, often within weeks or months. Now, with new treatments, about half of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma patients are alive five years after diagnosis.

Many people can be cured. The bad news Is that the prognosis remains poor for people such as Onassis who did not respond well to initial rounds of chemotherapy. "Once you flunk chemotherapy, people may live one month or they may live six months, but It's kind of in that realm," said Richard Creech, a medical oncologist who chairs the department of medicine at Jeanes Hospital in Philadelphia. Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, one of the most rapidly Increasing cancers in the country. Is a disease of the lymph nodes and lymph system.

The system produces lymphocytes, which help the body's Immune system fight off infection. Increasingly common About 45,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma this year. It ranks as the sixth-most-common cancer for women and fifth-most-common for men. It is one of the fastest-increasing malignancies, and during the past 30 years it has increased 60 percent as a killer. According to the American Cancer Society, about 21,200 Americans wlU die of It this year.

The risk of getting the disease is higher for people with HIV or other Immune system problems, but doctors do not know why most patients get it. A patient's prognosis Is determined by the type of lymphoma Involved, how much It has spread, what type of symptoms are exhibited and luck. Dr. John Glick, director of the University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center, said he has treated patients who appear on the surface to have the same chance of survival. Yet one patient lives and one dies.

"One can be resistant to chemotherapy, the same chemotherapy that cures the other patient, and we don't know why," he said. There are about 10 types of the disease, which can be distinguished by pathologists only after they have examined lymph tissue. Pathologists group the types according to how aggressively they spread in the body. Fast-spreading kind curable Low-grade lymphomas are slow to spread but Incurable. Patients can live without treatment for up SKATIJIG Continued from Page 1 in the Carrier Dome in Syracuse, N.Y., earlier this month.

Boitano, in his eighth season with the annual tour, said his knee feels fine despite skating a show almost Brian Boitano every night. Like the other headliners, he performs two solos in each show. He choreographed the first routine to music from the opera Tur-andot sung by Luciano Pavarotti. His encore is either to Leon Russell's bluesy A Song for You or Missing You sung by David Wilcox. In the latter, a song about unrequited love, Boitano incorporates a chair In his choreography.

The four-time U.S. champion and four-time World Professional champion is thrilled with the audiences' response to his new work. "I didn't know how they would receive me," Boitano admitted. "They still like me. It didn't matter that I didn't win this time." He said he still wonders how he l.

in I ii I linn ii EL. File Photo BRIEF ILLNESS: Jacqueline Onassis had one of the faster-spreading types of lymphoma, oncologists say. to 20 years, although they eventually die of the disease. Intermediate-grade and high-grade lymphomas spread much more quickly and patients die within weeks or months without treatment. With treatment, -Creech said.

50 percent of these aggressive lymphomas can now be cured. Doctors also classify the disease by how far It has spread, with patients having disease In only one lymph node having the best chance of survival. Such patients are most likely to be treated with radiation alone. Generally, they said, patients who come to the doctor complaining of symptoms such as fever and weight loss have a worse prognosis than patients who simply have noticed a swollen gland. Thought she had flu Doctors have not released any Information on what type of lymphoma Onassis suffered.

Her spokeswoman said doctors discovered the disease in January when Onassis sought treatment for what she thought was the flu. She was treated with chemotherapy and radiation. Area cancer experts said her lymphoma almost certainly was one of the aggressive types. Typically, such lymphomas are treated with four to six months of chemotherapy and radiation. In some patients, that destroys all signs of the disease.

If they still are cancer-free In six months, they likely are cured, Creech said. Those who do not respond completely to the chemotherapy or whose disease recurs after therapy Is completed have a much worse prognosis. The worst scenario is for patients whose cancer continues to spread during chemotherapy, as Onassis' apparently did. "The most effective treatment Is the first treatment," said Dr. Robert Comls.

clinical director of the Jefferson Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University. "Everything thereafter tends to be less effective, particularly if the disease progresses on the treatment." Comls said he hopes that cancer patients will realize that many people respond well to the treatments. "Just because Jackie didn't do well with it doesn't mean that other people don't," he said. "People shouldn't be discouraged by what happened to her." could have fallen on a crucial triple axel in the technical program In Lillehammer. "I never miss" that jump in practice, he said.

"It was such a letdown." He got off the Ice thinking, "This Is happening for a reason." The reason, he has since realized, may be the lesson that winning is not the most important thing to him or his fans. Sure, he said, "It's great to win. It made my life in '88." But he's also realistic enough to realize that it would be difficult to repeat such a career-making performance. Despite his disappointment in Lillehammer, he said he is still happy with his decision to give up his professional status and return to national and Olympic competition last year. "It was such a learning experience." The star of several skating specials may even be a better skater as a result of his crash landing at the Olympics.

He noted philosophically, "It's difficult to do the rebuilding process if you don't fall down first." Now that he's back on top both physically and artistically, he plans to continue competing after the tour ends in July. "I think I'll try to do Skate America this year," he said, referring to an international competition held each fall In the United States. "I feel I'rrj competitive." 4t she decided at age 71 to get her high school diploma. Freye "felt I had a lot more to learn." She collects her bachelor's degree today. Her education was interrupted as a high school freshman in New York City when her father died.

She quit school and got a job selling hosiery to help her mother and two siblings. While her formal education lapsed, Freye kept reading and following the arts. At 71, she recalled, she "got up one day and said, 'I've got to get my high school diploma. The time has Freye contended with arthritis, a broken arm and illness that dragged college out to six years. A scholarship covered fees, and the school's disabled students' program provided volunteers to take notes when her arthritis was severe.

Helen Johnson, coordinator of the school's re-entry program for students 25 and older, said Freye's achievements stand out in a society scared of aging. A year elder Novelist Harold Robblns is 78. Actor Rick Jason is 68. Singer Leo Sayer is 46. Actor Mr.

is 42. atrium painted a light clear blue, the color of the sky Just above the horizon. This color can be seen, in reflected light if nothing else, at the end of most vistas down the warm-toned hallways. The total color scheme is beautiful, almost ethereal. Somewhat paradoxically, however, Graves has set a ring of columns around this atrium and covered its walls with paneling that simulates the large masonry blocks of castles or fortresses.

He prefers to characterize the overall impression as one of "stability," but some may sense a tenser, more metaphorically complex message here, mixed from gentle, nearly floating color and the stalwart solidity of the forms. AUegorically, it is as if Graves were guarding the sky and its light at the heart of the building. In as much as good architecture should somehow embody the meaning and function of its structure, it is hard to imagine a better image for a building mostly devoted to the design of televisions. Steve Mannheimer is an associate professor of painting at the Herron School of Art, Indiana University-Purdue University ai Indianapolis. Miss Universe is from India Associated Press anila, Philippines An 18-year-old model from New Delhi won the 43rd The Tonight Show.

During a May 6 show, Goldthwait stood up in the middle of his Interview with Jay Leno and set his chair on fire. It was doused with cups of water. "During that televised appearance, Mr. Goldthwait lit a chair on fire using a lighter and lighter fluid. His actions created a significant danger of harm to himself and others," the city attorney's office said.

Goldthwait was charged with unlawfully causing a fire and possession of a flammable substance or device with the intent to burn property. Each count carries a maximum $1,000 fine and six months in jail. Arraignment was scheduled for June 23. "Bobcat never meant to hurt anyone," said Goldthwait's manager, Tim Anctil. "It was a stupid thing to do," Leno said.

"I don't think he meant any malice by it. 1 spoke to him afterward and he was very sorry. He did not understand the magnitude of what he'd done." 78-year-old to get college diploma today It's never too late, said 78-year-old Mona Freye, soon-to-be-college graduate. It took her six years to get a degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley, after windows reflecting in the midst of that red surface and two plain circulation towers to lend a sense of monolithic scale to the checkerboard wing. The viewer should not put too fine a point on Graves' gracious sense of folksiness.

It is much more than an exercise in architectural nostalgia. As Graves summarized, "These kinds of visual connections are ultimately felt in a subliminal way." Or, at least that nostalgia runs farther than the farmland on the edge of Indianapolis. Students of architectural history might equally discern deep connections to the colors and forms of the Tuscan countryside and buried in it some serene yearning for a past of classical grandeur. The interior of the building is every bit as deliberately colored and tailored for maximum visual panache. The wide hallways and terrazzo floors are richly colored In an earth-toned palette.

And the elegantly trimmed exhibition spaces where Thomson shows its products have been treated as "museum spaces," Graves said. At the center of the building is a round, four-story, sky-lighted extra space jiist two doors SE IT NOW Indoor Tent Sale The Woodfield Fj I A We've taken Centre aown furniture Patio, Den, Miss Universe pageant today (Friday night in the United States), defeating 76 other contestants from around the world. Miss USA, Lu Parker of North Charleston, S.C., was among the 10 semi-finalists. Sushmita Sen received her crown from the outgoing Miss Universe. Dayanara Torres of Puerto Rico, at the end of the pageant.

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