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...past the CHUL discussed minor changes in the House system, Whitlock said, but it must now confront housing issues which have a major educational and financial impact...
While the Quinlans and the state authorities confront one another, the unconscious Karen also has an attorney. Daniel Coburn, 32, a part-time New Jersey public defender, was appointed by the court to guard what he calls her "constitutional right to life." Coburn has gone so far as to say that Karen could recover. And if the evidence he puts forward supports him in any way, he seems certain to prevail...
...their own person or do their own thing." Another woman was admitted to the hospital because "her world had fallen to pieces." Her husband had had an extramarital affair with her best friend, yet she would not admit anger toward her husband. When she was finally able to confront the real reason behind her feelings, she became aggressively angry with her husband. The male attendants tried to subdue her, thus doing what Scarf considers to be "positioning" the woman. Her inability to express anger had caused her psychiatric difficulties, yet display of this anger is not "feminine...
...people living in it false, and nowhere is this more clearly shown than in the relationship of the Lassiters and their servants. Tuesday's episode showed Mrs. Hacker, the housekeeper, pleading with Rosamond, the youngest Lassiter daughter, not to sack the new maid. That a servant would dare to confront her employer so boldly would be unthinkable in a household of the British or American aristocracy. That a woman so recently arrived in the position of having a housekeeper would not be threatened (as Rosamond was not) by this kind of display of gall should be unthinkable in this...
...officials who knew the Manson family were not at all surprised that Fromme found the courage to confront the President with a .45 in her hand. Bugliosi, now in private practice, ticked off four reasons she might have done it. "First, the entire Manson family religion is based on killing. They enjoy it. Second, their purpose has always been to draw attention to themselves and to shock the world. Third, as recently as a month ago, Manson was accusing Nixon of the responsibility for his conviction, and Ford was appointed by Nixon. Fourth, there is a lot of competition between...