Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JACK L. COOPER Evanston, Ill...
...international units (ten micrograms), which is easily obtained from milk. If the youngster's system makes more vitamin D as he plays in the sun, it is usually not enough to be dangerous. If he is given more than 20,000 units, a child becomes severely ill. In northern climes, most white adults make all the vitamin D they need from casual exposure of their face and hands to the sun and need no dietary supplement. They get ill on 100,000 units a day. But in the tropics, Loomis figures, the white man's unpigmented skin could...
...daughter of Newport Socialite Howard G. Gushing; and Peter Hill Beard, 29, a photographer-writer specializing in African conservation (The End of the Game) and great-grandson of Railroad Baron James J. Hill, whom she met last year when she hurried to Kenya to care for her father, taken ill on safari; in an Episcopal ceremony followed by a reception for 400 guests; in Newport...
...years ago by Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers on the Phillips Brooks House hospitals committee who decided that their efforts would be most useful with mental patients. The students moved from the psvchiatric division of Massachusetts General Hospital to the mammoth wasteland of the Metropolitan State Hospital for the Mentally Ill, where in all but a few wards the ratio of patients to psychiatrists is about 600 to 1. The volunteers discovered that patients' responses to individual attention were only sporadically encouraging, and, puzzled, ten of them decided to find out why. They got permission to live on the wards...
...people who have been in the mental hospital only a short time, Wellmet accepts people whom the hospital has given up as hopeless and whose families have forgotten them. Jean Carmel, the vibrant, charismatic executive director of Wellmet--herself a former director--says that most families with a mentally ill member have struggled so long with the problem that the patient's incomprehensible tantrums and truculence have become "a living thorn in their sides." Therefore when the patient is making no progress under therapy, the hospital can persuade the family to let him be consigned to a back ward...