Word: mentalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Jimmy made his successful run for Georgia Governor in 1970, she joined the rough-and-tumble and became an overnight hit on the campaign trail. As the first lady of Georgia, her performance was nearly flawless. She was especially skilled at promoting her husband's mental health program in skeptical rural Georgia...
...Dinner. Only one thing spoils this family-sitcom idyl: Conrad's older brother is dead, drowned in a boating accident that Conrad survived. Survival leaves Conrad feeling so guilty that he attempts suicide and has to be sent to a mental hospital, passing on his guilt, in turn, to father and mother...
...dinner -the board last week acquitted Staff Sergeant Harold Bronson of involuntary manslaughter, maltreatment and assault. Bronson, a drill instructor (D.I.), was tried for the death last March of Private Lynn E. ("Bubba") McClure. During a mock bayonet drill supervised by Bronson, other recruits beat McClure, 20, a mental retardate, into a vegetable...
...remains extremely difficult for an immigrant to struggle through the paper work needed for a visa. Even a fully qualified applicant must stand in line for hours to acquire or submit the proper forms. The would-be immigrant must produce certificates of birth and marriage, of physical and mental health, of approval by his local police. Every foreign-language document must be translated into English by an officially certified translator, then notarized...
...most controversial new medical treatment in Vienna today is that of Dr. Franz Anton Mesmer, who claims to cure both physical and mental illness through the invisible forces of "animal magnetism." Although many reputable physicians insist that this magnetism does not exist, Mesmer points to the case of Franziska Oesterlin, 28, a friend of his wife's, whom he successfully treated two years ago for hysterical convulsions, pains in the ears, toothache, fainting spells, retention of urine, and delirium. Newspaper reports of that case brought Viennese flocking to his office...