Word: mcneill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the producers of diet canned fruits have just completed their autumn packing, and are likely to be stuck with huge unsold stocks. David E. Guerrant, president of Libby, McNeill & Libby, which has a low-calorie canned-fruit line, called the Government ban "unwarranted." He asked that the Feb. 1 deadline for withdrawing all items containing cyclamates be extended to Sept. 1. Meanwhile, the search for a palatable low-calorie formula goes on. Almost a dozen diet-food producers have approached Adolph's Food Products, which manufactures a sugar substitute composed mainly of glycine, an amino acid...
...Alfred Hill and Dr. James Paul McNeil!, agreed that he was in a paranoid state, that he had been and still was insane. Dr. Hill said that he was not treatable, was potentially dangerous, and "should not be permitted to have freedom again in his adult life." Dr. McNeill warned that under treatment. Sledge would appear to improve, but "even with therapy over a period of time the true cause would not be eradicated." The jury was impressed. Sledge was found insane and committed to Rusk State Hospital for what seemed certain to be the rest of his life...
...Sledge was free. His attorneys had asked for a new sanity hearing, and in August Dr. Hill ignored his previous opinion and testified that Sledge "is, today, not a potentially dangerous criminal." The hearing ended with a hung jury, and another was held this month. At that one. Dr. McNeill also changed his mind. Forgetting his warning, he stated that Sledge was now of sound mind and sane. No contradictory testimony was offered by any state witnesses, and the jury had little choice but to free the killer. Sane enough at least not to push his luck, Sledge immediately left...
...testimony, Susan claimed that McNeill had caressed her five times during the 45-minute session. At one point, she said, "Mr. McNeill placed his hands on my breasts and squeezed them!" Later, one of Susan's close friends and classmates, Stephanie Smith, testified to a similar incident. Assigned to tutor her at home after she had broken a hip in an auto accident, McNeill "put his hands on my breast and said, 'Where did you get these secondary sex characteristics?' " Backing up her daughter's testimony, Mrs. George Schaffner, whose husband is an accountant, explained that...
...McNeill's attorneys, paid for in part by a faculty-sponsored defense fund, managed to cast considerable doubt on the girls' testimony. Witnesses claimed that Susan had such a hatred for McNeill after she got a low mark on a test that she pounded her desk, cried "I hate you!," later called him "a son of a bitch" and talked about "dirty black niggers." His lawyers raised the question of why she had kept still for 45 minutes without trying to protest-although a class was in session in an adjoining room, the doors were unlocked...