Word: philadelphia
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Sylvia Seegrist, 25, is a diagnosed schizophrenic with a history of violence that includes stabbing a mental health worker. Sent repeatedly to mental institutions in suburban Philadelphia, she kept getting sprung, thanks in part to various courts' strict interpretations of Pennsylvania's involuntary- commitment law. A year ago, she was committed for 20 days after trying to choke her mother but, against the recommendation of her psychiatrist, was released yet again. Last week Seegrist's mother Ruth tried to persuade her daughter to commit herself to a hospital for treatment. "She said I had no business telling her what...
...last month, struggling for his life. For weeks, doctors at Presbyterian-University Hospital had been searching for a donor heart to replace his debilitated one. Time was running out. Across the state, in the chocolate capital of Hershey, Anthony Mandia, 44, was losing a similar battle. Mandia, a Philadelphia recreation-center director, had a history of coronaries, and now his heart was deteriorating rapidly, but no donor could be found. On the West Coast, Richard Dallara, 33, an auto mechanic from Sonoma, Calif., was near death, also awaiting a donor heart. Then, within one week, all three became willing subjects...
...newest student organizations on the Philadelphia campus is the 25-member Comic Collectors of the University of Pennsylvania, a group devoted to the enjoyment and propagation of comic books...
...juniors will come to Boston in June for several days of training. After several exhibitions in the Hub, they will tour the strong squash areas throughout the country, specifically New York, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. They will finish their tour in Toronto, what Fish calls "the squash capital of North America...
...Bruins' 500 Ivy record is deceiving. Brown lost to league-leading Penn--in Philadelphia--by only three points, and the Bears lost a one-point heartbreaker to Yale at the Bowl...