Word: patient
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dock, his head bobbing, his lips forming soundless words, the experts described him as a schizophrenic haunted by the obsession that a tapeworm was coiled up inside his stomach, gnawing and cutting him to pieces. Over the past 30 years, they added, Tsafendas had been a mental patient in five countries, including the U.S., and had escaped from at least two institutions. Settling down in South Africa, Tsafendas somehow landed his messenger's job last August (a secret government inquiry is exploring the lapse in screening); then, acting on the impulse that he blamed on the demon inside...
...tones and rolling prose, but they only make his barbs the sharper. University administrators, he says, "have, quite literally, nothing to say," so they talk "dreary rubbish." Faculties are "caught both in the hideous jungle of academic bureaucracy and their own blind professional conservatism." Many doctoral dissertations are "patient parsing of the obvious and the irrelevant," yielding "laboriously trivial discoveries." It all adds up to "a vast educational enterprise built entirely upon a caste of learned men whose learning has no relevance to the young. It is a vision of madness accomplished...
Cheaper by the Dozen. Standard tests for single blood factors generally cost a patient from $2 to $5; half a dozen tests may cost a package price of $15 or so. The old-fashioned process is also costly in technicians' time, while doctor and patient wait hours or days for the results. Dr. Albert L. Chasson told a Technicon symposium last week in Manhattan that the SMA-12, which he operates at Rex Hospital in Raleigh, N.C., is testing 10,000 blood samples a year at a price to the patient of $9 for the dozen chemical determinations. Only...
Adamant Innocence. Simmons' lawyers argued that he should be returned to Texas as a mental patient who had no criminal responsibility under Nuevo León law. Nevertheless, without a jury, Simmons was found guilty in March of 1961, largely on the strength of Hilda's alleged identification. Although an appellate court tossed out that key evidence as illegal in 1962, the original trial judge simply pronounced Simmons guilty once more on the basis of disputed facts and such other items as his falsified tourist card and "penal antecedents." In 1964 the Mexican Supreme Court upheld that verdict...
...doves" seek an "imaginative" peace offensive. This inclination for bold moves reflects a misunderstanding of good diplomacy and raises unrealistic expectations. Especially in the light of past confusion, even a significant U.S. peace move might not elicit an immediate response from North Vietnam. The United States must be patient, and the President must be ready to wait -- and convince others to wait -- for a response...