Word: commitments
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...should also be pointed out that in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, in practice, it takes two physicians to commit a person to a mental hospital for a ten day period of observation--one to fill out the Section 79 (Request for Observation) paper and the other to accept it. A physician may not request observation of a person at a hospital where he is employed and this provides a double check for the person committed for observation. While in practice most Section 79 papers are accepted by the admitting physician this is by no means always true...
...requests more time. This extension is limited to forty days and provides still further check. Finally, if after forty days the patient has not decided to stay voluntarily (and in my experience about nine out of ten patients do) the superintendent of the hospital may request a Section 51 commitment. This is all the doctor may do, as only a judge may commit somebody on a Section 51 paper. Any patient may be represented by counsel and have a detailed hearing, which is by no means always the rubber stamp which the article implies. The reason most patients are committed...
...difficulty in effectively organizing Chicago slum dwellers in 1966; militants in Harlem showered him with rotten eggs in 1965. Many radicals derided his pleas for nonviolence-though few were unmoved by his death, as was New York City's William Epton, who was convicted of conspiring to commit criminal anarchy for his part in the 1964 Harlem riots. "We don't mourn King," said Epton. "We saw him as an obstacle to the black liberation movement. We saw him as a fireman for Kennedy and Johnson...
...when his father, a steel-company executive, was transferred from Modesto, Calif., to Honolulu. "We went to Waikiki every day," recalls Mark's mother. 'You should have seen that little boy dash into the ocean. He'd run like he was trying to commit suicide." After four years in Hawaii, the Spitz family moved to Sacramento, Calif., where Mark got his first competitive instruction at a local Y.M.C.A. By the time he was ten, the youngster held 17 national age-group swimming records, and when he was 14, his father took him aside. "We have...
...latest soundings show that the President can still count on a majority of the 2,622 Democratic delegates at the August convention, but every day brings word of new defections. Of the nation's 24 Democratic Governors, no fewer than ten have failed to commit themselves to the President. Even the loyalists are finding themselves with shrinking armies to command. In Utah, pro-Johnson Governor Calvin Rampton declared after learning that six of his eight top nonsalaried advisers prefer New York Senator Robert Kennedy: "I may have a tough time holding the delegation for Johnson." In Iowa, where Democratic...