Word: mental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration has consistently taken the position that there should be a constitutional amendment providing that 1) the President, in writing, may declare himself disabled and delegate his powers to the Vice President, or 2) if the President should be unable to make such a declaration (because of severe illness, mental incapacity, or whatever), the Vice President -upon receiving written approval from a majority of the Cabinet-could pronounce the President disabled, and could take over. Any agreement between President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon would necessarily include some such provisions...
Judicial Tears. The trial began on July 21, 1924-with Defense Lawyer Darrow pleading the boys guilty and winning permission from Judge John R. Caverly to present evidence of "the mental condition of these young men." A month later, as Darrow began his closing argument, a crowd fought wildly for seats in the courtroom, and a bailiff's arm was broken in the scramble. For twelve hours Clarence Darrow argued that the crime had been one of compulsion, that Nathan Leopold and Dickie Loeb could not have helped themselves. When he finished, tears were streaming down Judge Caverly...
...hotel, was soon back at the hospital, coughing blood and fevered (103°), pleading for readmission. He won it. After a few days he went berserk, terrorized the ward, smashed furniture and equipment, gashed his thigh with scissors. After more such self-inflicted wounds, Lamphere was committed to a mental hospital. He escaped...
...tranquilizers and newer "psychic energizers" only the harbingers of a parade of drugs that will cure a wide variety of man's emotional disorders, increase and prolong his mental efficiency, perhaps decrease his need for sleep? This teaser from the psychochemist's dream world was presented last week by New York's Dr. Nathan S. Kline to a Chicago meeting of the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. Eventually, said Dr. Kline, modifications of existing drugs, and others still to be discovered, should lead to progress in these areas...
HARDENING OF BRAIN ARTERIES and resulting mental deterioration in the aged. (This now causes 30% of admissions to New York's state hospitals and a vast number of milder, nonhospitalized cases.) Drugs could help by improving circulation in the brain, preventing extension of areas damaged by sclerosis, or stimulating the brain's repair mechanisms. Effective drugs for these purposes might outsell anything now on the market...