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...Michigan, 18 persons institutionalized under the criminal psychopath statue still await release. Since 1968, when the law was repealed, 258 patients have been released. The state authorities considered the freed "criminals" cured to the extent that they could cope with society. Psychosurgery had not been employed, only traditional therapy methods...
...body were Picasso's widow; her daughter by her first marriage, Catherine Hutin; and Paulo, 52, Picasso's son by his first marriage to the Russian dancer Olga Koklova. After the 1 10-mile journey, the mahogany casket, without ceremony, was placed in the chateau chapel to await the building of a mausoleum...
...bonds, he bought twelve-year-old Rita ("Jackie Lee") Flynn of Bolingbrook, Ill., from her mother and stepfather, Rita and Fred Flynn. The happy trader and his 5-ft., 100-lb. blonde bride-to-be then headed for South Carolina, where girls can marry at 14. They planned to await Jackie Lee's equally content stepfather, who intended to fly in and sign consent papers stating that...
...much of society treats the aged as an undifferentiated group whose only function is to await death. The author took one feisty woman to pose as a pro spective resident of a retirement community. Here, purred the salesman, "you are free from worry. We have a security patrol, 24 hours a day, just looking after your welfare so you can sleep in peace." Replied Mrs. Duffy: "Thafs exactly what the man said when I bought a plot in the cemetery...
...WOULD BE PLAIN silly to suggest that Radcliffe women should reject the opportunities that now await them, that we should throw it all away and say "How can we cruise through graduate school, when we never fought for the right to be here?" But we can grasp the connection between ourselves and the women who made us shudder two years ago. We can begin to understand what it was that influenced the swing toward granting some women their due: it was the phenomenon of women pooling talents and resources to make themselves heard...