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Tull took the letter to the police, who consulted with Washington County attorney John E. Samson and then proceeded in force--the complaint says with 10 squad cars, the city says it was fewer--to the house of the Smiths' cousins. The police believed they had probable cause to take her into custody, the police report states, "because of the health risk to Mary if an abortion was performed at this stage and due to the fact that an abortion was planned...
...next day Mary, who had been taken to a foster home outside the city, was questioned by Samson without an attorney or legal guardian present, the Smiths' suit alleges. Samson then drew up a petition to the juvenile court charging that the Smiths "neglect or refuse to provide care necessary for the health, morals or well being" of their daughter. Counters Jeanelle Kleveland, the Smiths' lawyer: "They had put her under the care of a doctor, and that's who she needed, not the cops." Mary's regular physician was on vacation at the time...
There may be a cure for male grouchiness, but the patients have to be very, very grouchy. According to Willis Samson, a physiologist at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine, beneficiaries of the new therapy must suffer from a hormonal disorder that makes them, (ahem) "hypogonadal". The cure: testosterone shots or pills. Though excessive amounts of the hormone hae often been associated with aggressive, antisocial behavior, Samson presented research at the Endocrine Society's annual meeting in Los Angeles today showing that men who have too little of the hormone are less grouchy, nervous and irritable after...
...Landry and Burt Lancon, who were pairs silver medalists in the 1994 U.S. Open figure-skating championships, reimagine the Cavarettas' routine on a tiny ice rink. The best variety package is still Jubilee!, now in its 14th year at Bally's. Its huge, handsome sets and gargantuan production numbers (Samson and Delilah, the Sinking of the Titanic, a World War I dogfight)--with a few bites of chaste cheesecake--would make Flo Ziegfeld cheer...
...later as frauds." The hospital's job is not to cure these patients but to calm them down, sometimes using antipsychotic drugs, so that they can return home and be treated in a more familiar environment. There have been a few escapes from the facility, notably that of "Samson," a burly Canadian who demonstrated his Old Testament credentials by ripping the metal grille off a ward window. A hospital staff member spotted him at a bus station and retrieved him without incident...