Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most important thing that has happened in treatment of the mentally ill in our lifetimes," says one of the nation's leading mental-hospital administrators about a revolutionary trend in his field. For a behind-the-walls report, see MEDICINE, Open Door in Psychiatry...
Midway in the party, three unawed children dressed as witches and a black cat bounded in the door, demanded trick or treat. For a time, Touré and Stevenson were closeted in the study, talking about trade conditions in Guinea. The dinner party might have lasted longer had not Mrs. Touré's dress Zipper broken. After temporary repairs with safety pins she collected her husband, headed home...
...Dubois. Last week, as he sat writing a story in the downtown office of the American Cable & Radio Co., the throng appeared. Came the chant: "Do we want Fidel?" The answer: "Yes!" The question: "Do we want Dubois?" The answer: "No! To the firing squad!" Ducking out a rear door, Dubois was picked up by a military guard, led through the howling, spitting mob to a taxi and safety at the Havana Hilton Hotel. Back in his room, Dubois made light of the danger. Said he: "Tell the boys at home not to worry...
Beware of Death. But Clyfford Still, 54, pushed on into abstraction with never a backward look. He treats art as an apocalyptic vision, refuses to let visitors (even buyers) inside his door, recently turned down the offer of a one-man show at Venice's Biennale because of his professed fear that it would be misinterpreted as catering to "the praise of Vanity Fair." "A painting in the wrong hands is a highly dangerous force," Still hints darkly, "just like a mathematical equation...
...circumstance. Born in San Francisco, he went to Union College in Schenectady, N.Y. before joining Pennsy as an engineering trainee in 1928, highballed up the corporate track, was boosted to vice president in 1955. Along the route, he distinguished himself by making fast decisions, stopping the buck at his door. Married and father of two sons, he is used to putting in a ten-hour day, gathering his own facts by pounding the rails. As chief administrative officer, he will be in charge of the road's everyday operation, will have even less time for the golf and woodworking...