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Some states empower a doctor to order commitment to a mental hospital when he thinks a patient dangerous?at least long enough to subject him to a thorough examination by psychiatrists. Other states insist that the individual commit himself voluntarily, that his family commit him or that the courts remand him into hospital care. In such situations, the doctor can only try to persuade, though the psychotic is not notably amenable to having himself locked up. Nor, often, is his family, who may still regard mental illness as a shameful smirch and resist formal commitment to an institution until...
TRIUMPH OR TRAGEDY: REFLECTIONS ON VIETNAM, by Richard N. Goodwin. One of the young brain-stormers for President Kennedy and, until recently, for President Johnson, Goodwin examines U.S. policy in Viet Nam in a way that is often critical but concludes that the U.S. must commit whatever force is needed to clear the guerrillas from the countryside...
Bullet for an Answer. The legislators who wrote New York's stop-and-frisk law in 1964 held that big-city police clearly need authority to stop and question anyone whom they "reasonably suspect" of committing or being about to commit a felony or serious misdemeanor. They justified the frisk on grounds of elemental safety. As the New York Court of Appeals put it in a key 1964 case (People v. Rivera): "The answer to the question propounded by the policeman may be a bullet...
...September. They have not won a big-league pennant since 1896; they are the team that Mighty Casey struck out for; and they peddled Babe Ruth away for $2,900. Still, all those past transgressions will be forgiven this year, unless the Orioles find some curious new way to commit suicide. Last week, slightly past the halfway point of the 1966 season, they were leading the American League by a full seven games...
...whether serving as president of his country's National Research Council (1935-39), or sitting as a member of the Atomic Energy Commission (1946). But Canadians know him best as the World War II commander of Canadian troops in Europe, who bitterly disputed Allied plans to commit his men piecemeal, arguing that his divisions should form a single force "pointed at the heart of Berlin." McNaughton lost the fight, but won the hearts of Canadian patriots...