Word: bedlam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...present; only travel-stained faces stare back. Then hell erupts. In an Israeli airport, from a French plane, Japanese terrorists gun down Puerto Rican pilgrims (see THE WORLD). The mind is dizzied, repelled-and outraged. We were never promised a rose garden, but neither were we threatened with bedlam...
Much sideline speculation centered around the new, paddle-powered waterbed rafts. These innovative crafts are just beginning to appear on the raft-race circuits, but, from all indications, it seems unlikely that they will ever catch on. Both the Water Bedlam (skippered by Tinker Lindsay, Tad Paul, and Lisa Noll of Adams) and the Delta Queen (manned by Henry Hardy and Terry Valenzuela of Adams House) ended up upside down. Apologists blamed the officials' launch for causing the spills, but cooler heads pointed to a basic instability of design. The crew of the Water Bedlam was somewhat compensated for their...
...Bedlam Approach. Because most environmentally retarded children develop physically at a normal rate, parents often fail to realize that the youngsters' minds are not keeping pace. Compensatory programs must be started early if they are to be effective. But most children of this type are not diagnosed until they have entered school, and many schools are inadequately equipped to deal with them. As a result, the child not only fails to catch up, but is likely to fall further and further behind those of his age. If he becomes mentally disturbed as well...
Most parents and specialists now realize that the typical large state-run custodial institution must be regarded as the very last resort. Even in states that have relatively progressive policies toward the treatment of retardation, such facilities are Hogarthian reflections of a Bedlam approach to the problem. They are chronically short of funds and personnel, do little to train the more seriously afflicted and can rarely maintain even minimal standards of hygiene. One example is New York's Willowbrook State School on Staten Island, where a cutback in state appropriations recently caused conditions to deteriorate to the crisis point...
Wallace election night headquarters in the Grenada Room of the Park Plaza Hotel here was bedlam last night. Bedecked in Wallace hats, Wallace neckties, and Wallace skirts and sports jackets, a crowd of several hundred cheered each new report of a Wallace victory. Announcements of returns in counties in the northern Florida panhandle, where Wallace received between 65 and 75 per cent of the vote, were greeted with yells and dancing...