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Just two months after leaving a Connecticut sanitarium for treatment of psychiatric problems, Joan Kennedy, 38, wife of Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy, has checked into a private clinic at Capistrano by the Sea, Calif, that specializes in megavitamin therapy. Joan is known to have been suffering from stress since her son Teddy's leg amputation for bone cancer last November. According to friends who saw her at a recent Kennedy family-sponsored tennis benefit in New York she was "a nervous wreck" despite a restful summer of sailing and sunning at Hyannis Port...
...tale of a nameless deranged narrator who sits in his room at an overpriced Swiss sanitarium and purports to write a novel about a demented dreamer named Timothy Fogel. The narrator's own story about his itch to transform his experience into art and the Fogel "novel" are offered in alternating chapters...
Taylor continues to lurch along the emotional curve between peskiness and seeming paranoid schizophrenia. She tries the patience of her unctuous second husband (Laurence Harvey) and frays the nerves of her best friend (Billie Whitelaw). Finally plans are made to ship her off to a Swiss sanitarium. No matter what she says at this point, it is doubtful that anyone would believe...
...thought to be immortal by many of his subjects. But even at the height of his power, he lived in fear of his life, behind heavily guarded walls-calling himself Osagyefo (Redeemer). From 1966 until he died last week of cancer at age 62, in a Bucharest sanitarium where he had gone for treatment, Nkrumah had lived in exile, still regarded at home as part despot, part national hero. Above all, he was the prototypical African nationalist and the first leader of a British colony to win independence for his country after World...
...France in 1968, a high school teacher named Gabrielle Russier fell in love with one of her students. He was 17 and thus legally a minor. His parents invoked the law to thwart the affair, at one point having Miss Russier arrested and even sending the boy to a sanitarium. After several months, Miss Russier took her own life in desperation. The episode became a cause celebre in France and the subject of at least three books...