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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Security" was the watchword for more than half a century in 99% of both public and private mental hospitals. Gates were guarded to prevent escapes. An attending doctor or nurse had to go through what Dr. Herman B. Snow, director at St. Lawrence, calls "the ritual of the key" to enter a building. Then, jangling a fistful of hardware, he had to repeat the ritual at the door of every ward, at every staircase and elevator. That this security fetish is an illusion is shown by St. Lawrence's experience: it never had many escapes compared with most hospitals...
...While the open door is no cure-all," says Dr. Hunt, "it is the most important thing that has happened in treatment of the mentally ill in our lifetimes-not even excepting the ataractic drugs. With this, we can prove to the public as well as ourselves that incarcerated madness is really unnecessary...
Underdog Biology. Biochemistry and other biological sciences are even less favored. Biochemists work in poorly equipped laboratories, and most of their meager funds are allocated to practical projects related to public health. There is little opportunity for basic research or the pursuit of promising but distant goals. Said Harvard's Bacteriologist Bernard Davis: "The Russians take planning seriously. A committee of elders decided what problems need solving this year...
Shown in France, the picture delighted the public, astonished the critics, won the 1959 Grand Prix at Cannes. Part of its appeal, no doubt, derives from the timeless charm of the old legend itself, which Scenarist Jacques Viot has adapted simply and gracefully. Orpheus is a Rio streetcar conductor; Eurydice is a village girl who comes to the big city to visit her cousin and to escape from a sinister stranger who wants to kill her. They fall in love and go down to the city together to celebrate the carnival in the streets. There her enemy, who is Death...
...public has also taken a fancy to the new '60 big-car models; October's total of 526,737 units topped any October in history, including record 1955. Chevy, Ford, Pontiac, Oldsmobile and Cadillac reported their best October in history; Rambler (up 21.5% over last year), Dodge (up 57%), Buick (up 72%), Mercury (up 99%) and Lincoln (up 100%) were off with a roar. But with plants shut down around the U.S. and better than 206,000 auto workers laid off because of the steel strike, industry production volume dwindled to 67,195 cars last week, about...