Word: panels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Repeatedly last week McGovern expressed his pleasure that the campaign was returning to issues instead of focusing on personalities. Yet there is increasing evidence that the Nixon-McGovern personality differences might be McGovern's best asset (see TIME Citizens' Panel, page 14). Contends Richard Scammon, a top Washington expert on the electorate: "The best thing that George McGovern has going for him is that he ain't Richard Nixon. He had better stick with that." But there are mystifying crosscurrents moving at this stage of the campaign. Even as a Harris poll was showing that the Eagleton...
...marriage to Shriver in 1953, Eunice shifted her primary field of interest to mental retardation. (Rosemary, the eldest Kennedy sister, is in an institution for the mentally retarded.) When J.F.K. became President in 1960, Eunice persuaded him to establish the National Institute of Child Health and to appoint a panel that became the Presidential Committee on Mental Retardation. Brother Bobby once twitted her by saying that the only reason J.F.K. pushed her plans into law was to get energetic Eunice off his back...
...been considered by some doctors clinically serious enough to require electric-shock treatments twice sounded alarming. To many people, that smacks of a radical, frightening assault on the brain that would only be used in desperate circumstances. In fact, both the illness and the remedy are surprisingly commonplace. A panel of experts convened by the American Psychiatric Association to help handle press queries after Eagleton's medical history was revealed calls depression "the most common form of mental disorder." Every year doctors treat some 4,000,000 to 8,000,000 Americans for it; about...
...likely. Lebensohn says he treated high political figures as long as 20 years ago without noting any later ineffectiveness among them. Some psychiatrists even say that Eagleton may be less likely to break under pressure than those who have never undergone such therapy. A period of depression, the A.P.A. panel insists, does not permanently impair a person's judgment...
Johnson elicited a positive response from the citizens' panel and the other CCA councillors--but not as favorable as Peterson. Mayor Barbara Ackermann labeled Johnson a "B-minus" candidate...