Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drastic Reorganization. Nixon's anticrime package, culled from previous studies, drew attention to vital but neglected court and rehabilitation procedures. It called for drastic reorganization of the District of Columbia judicial system by providing a single municipal court to handle all normal litigation and criminal prosecution. This would help eliminate lengthy delays in felony cases that have hitherto been tried in federal court. The President wants ten more judges to be added and 40 assistant U.S. attorneys to press prosecution of the immense backlog of cases. To strengthen the public-defender program and provide for rehabilitation of criminals, Nixon...
Herded into Buses. When the jury is sequestered, its members must forsake their careers and all the rhythms of their normal lives for prolonged periods. For three weeks in 1967, jurors in the trial of former Senate Aide Bobby Baker on theft, income tax evasion and conspiracy charges were confined to a cheerless court building in Washington, D.C., while Baker himself was free. Their only "relief," if it can be called that, came on weekends, when they were herded into buses for rides around the winter countryside. Jury Member Lenzie Barnes recalls: "It's like being a prisoner...
...five years, 68 of the women (17% ) have had to return to the hospital and undergo hysterectomy because more fibroids developed. For the remaining 332, the uterus and normal hormonal function have been preserved-an important consideration for women still in their childbearing years. Among the previously infertile women, there have been 13 successful pregnancies, all of which obviously would have been impossible if they had been subjected to hysterectomy...
...normal babies, cranial sutures (the spaces between the bones that make up the skull) are wide at birth and gradually narrow over the years. By the end of childhood the sutures close. But when a stunted child is being treated for deprivation dwarfism-and grows rapidly as a result-the sutures tend to widen instead. Usually, this is an ominous sign of rising fluid pressure within the skull, perhaps from a brain tumor...
...Marie A. Capitanio and John A. Kirkpatrick of St. Christopher's Hospital for Children followed deprivation-dwarfism patients over a period of months, carefully comparing X rays of the children's skulls with those of more normal children. They report that the widening sutures are far from being warnings of trouble. While the Philadelphians are still not certain, they believe that the children's widening sutures are being expanded by the youngsters' healthy, growing brains...