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Freshman Mike Bierer, termed an "excellent technician" by captain Bennett, and Reinaldo Diaz combined to whitewash S.M.U. in the initial sabre round. Junior Diaz has made a successful transition to the sabre division from foil competition, his forte last season. In the round-robin format, Diaz swept to triumph in all three of his matches...
...little faith! Before you could say en garde the Crimson sabers struck. First Larry Tu zorroed a win over his opponent, then Mike Bierer out-engineered his Engineer sword partner, and finally Chitman delivered his second death blow of the night to complete the saber sweep and put Harvard on top for the first time of the evening...
...Britain, nearly 90% of mental patients are in unlocked hospitals; in the U.S.. less than 50%. Britain has 70 day hospitals; the U.S. only 25. The usual reaction of North American psychiatrists to the bearded Bierer's preachment is that U.S. legal and public opinion is not yet ready for a drastic change. The same arguments were advanced when a few progressive U.S. hospitals began to unlock their doors (TIME. Nov. 16, 1959). Yet patients free to come and go have committed no more crimes, caused no more trouble than the general population. The more freedom they have...
...Save a Billion? Dr. Bierer, who has a doctorate in economics as well as in medicine, also makes a dollars-and-cents argument. In the U.S., he says, 85% of the psychiatrists, concentrating on lengthy analytic methods, can treat only 15% of mental patients, leaving only 15% to treat the 85% of patients who are in hospitals. Day, night and weekend hospitals, intensively using group psychotherapy, make the ratio nearer even and incidentally enable psychiatrists, handling many more patients, to make more money. Potential savings in unlocking hospitals: $1 billion a year...
Britain's hardheaded Ministry of Health does not buy all the Bierer doctrine, but it goes a long way with him. It has just announced a plan to shut down 70,000 mental-hospital beds, or about half the nation's total, within 15 years. And Bierer gets support for his theories from two distant lands that have never had big hospitals: Nigeria and India...