Word: freedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Argentine government let 104 university students out of jail last week, completing the release of some 250 students locked up last year for taking part in political demonstrations. Before leaving, the 74 students freed in Buenos Aires had to listen to a finger-wagging lecture by the federal police chief, who assured them that they would not have criminal records. That was understandable: they had never been tried, or even formally charged, but merely held at the disposal of President Juan...
...commonest. Now, Dr. Cooper works a plastic tube into the grey brain ball, injects procaine (which checks the tremor temporarily) to be sure he has reached the right spot, then injects absolute alcohol to do the job permanently. Of the first few cases, more than half have been freed of tremor and rigidity for many months...
...Witness Ernest Courey, of Mercer, Wis., who named Lamb as a Communist Party contributor, admitted under cross-examination that he had been convicted of second-degree murder, was freed after serving five years of a life sentence...
...state's highway-safety program, Craig lured Professor Joseph L. Lingo, one of the nation's top highway-safety experts (who helped reopen West Germany's postwar highway system), away from Purdue University. Under Professor Lingo, the state police force has been increased, patrolmen have been freed from housekeeping duties so that they can spend more time on patrol, and enforcement and education have been stepped up. Results during 1954: a 58% increase in moving traffic arrests, 8,000 fewer traffic accidents and 204 fewer deaths. From this improved record, highway users have saved $22 million...
...first time in history, pills and injections (of two inexpensive drugs) are enabling psychiatrists to 1) nip in the bud some burgeoning outbreaks of emotional illness, 2) treat many current cases far more effectively, and 3) in some instances reverse long-standing disease so that patients can be freed from the hopeless back wards of mental hospitals where they have been "put away" for years...