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Determined to do something about his weakness for vodka that had earned him a record of minor brushes with the law, Army Veteran Carl Holm, 28, voluntarily went to a veterans mental hospital in Sheridan, Wyo. When he was given town privileges, though, Holm wasted no time getting drunk and passing out on the hospital lawn. "It's my opinion," said a harried doctor after locking up the patient, "that you're a hopeless alcoholic and should spend the rest of your life in this ward...
...hospital duly went to court to ask Holm's involuntary commitment under a Wyoming law that aims to make such hearings easy on the patient. Like similar laws in a dozen other states, Wyoming's is based on a federally sponsored model code. To keep things informal, the code ironically says that a commitment hearing "shall not be bound by the rules of evidence"-the rules that bar hearsay or irrelevant testimony in any ordinary law court...
...Liberty. After a jury ordered Holm back into the hospital last year, his young court-appointed Sheridan lawyer, James E. Birchby, appealed to the Wyoming Supreme Court on the grounds that the jury had been given hearsay evidence about Holm's mental condition. The law permitting this, he argued, denied the due process guaranteed by the 14th Amendment as well as the Wyoming constitution. Last month the court agreed and set Holm free. "It still remains the fundamental law of the land," said the court, "that a person cannot be deprived of his liberty-whether by involuntary hospitalization...
Creativity in Design. Saab employs 14,000 workers in nine plants, one of which is carved out of the earth below 100 feet of granite to withstand bombing. The company has been ably directed for the past 15 years by President Tryggve Holm, 60, a modest, slide-rule-toting engineer. Holm insists on creativity in design, quality and efficiency in production, has instituted an incentive piecework plan that spurs employees on to faster work. Another Holm plan ensures that quality does not suffer from speed: Saab factories swarm with inspectors, one for every 16 workers...
...remake of the Rodgers & Hammerstein 1957 TV musical starring Lesley Warren (who played the ingénue lead in Broadway's 110 in the Shade) as Cinderella, Stuart Damon as the prince, Ginger Rogers as the queen, Walter Pidgeon as the king, Celeste Holm as the fairy godmother, and Jo Van Fleet as the stepmother. Color...