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...nearly 15 years, Kenneth Donaldson had trouble sleeping. "There was the fear," he explains, "always the fear you have in your mind, I suppose, that when you go to sleep maybe someone will jump on you during the night. They never did. But you think about those things. It was a lunatic asylum." The Florida State Hospital was indeed an insane asylum, and Donaldson was committed there by his father as a "paranoid schizophrenic" in 1957. He was a college dropout and a divorced father of three; though he had held regular jobs, he had begun complaining that...
Last week, at 67, Donaldson joined the ranks of those whose cases have prompted major Supreme Court decisions. The court unanimously ruled that every mental patient in the U.S. who is held involuntarily has the right to be either treated or released. "A finding of 'mental illness' alone cannot justify a state's locking a person up against his will and keeping him indefinitely in simple custodial confinement," wrote Justice Potter Stewart. The Constitution, he ruled, prohibits forced incarceration of untreated patients "if they are dangerous to no one and can live safely in freedom." In short...
...American Psychiatric Association has reported that "at least 90% of those in state and county mental hospitals are not dangerous to themselves or others." Bruce J. Ennis, a civil liberties lawyer who argued the Donaldson case, adds, "Most of them are just old. They are homeless, penniless, friendless and maybe not too smart." Many will not want to leave and will remain as voluntary patients. In other cases, authorities may now decree that patients are dangerous or simply unable to "live safely in freedom." Still, there will be new pressure to release large numbers, if only because better treatment will...
...trades-$2,000 and below. What becomes unfixed next week is everything else-commissions on deals between $2,000 and $300,000, the bulk of business. "Most of the lumps are still to come," says George D. Gould, chairman of New York's DLJ Securities, a division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a major institutional broker...
...triumph in the principal role of Bernstein's Mass at Berkeley. Price is, not to beat about the bush, the best baritone in the business. Here he is charming as he sings "Bianca" with a single pink posy in his palms, and duets with his dazzling damozel (Norma Donaldson) in "Always True to You in My Fashion." In addition, this show allows him to exhibit a lot of mercurial movement and supple dancing. Price is, as Cole Porter might have put it, priceless...