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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...State of Texas For the Best Interest and Protection of Earl Long, A Mentally Ill Person , . . because of his mental illness is likely to cause immediate injury to himself or others if not immediately restrained . . . It is therefore ORDERED that the said EARL LONG be, and he hereby is, detained in protective custody...
...kept locked at both ends, and close by, within a moment's call, were two male nurses. Earl Long, serving for the third time (1939-40, 1948-52, 1956-60) as one of the most powerful and certainly one of the most controversial Governors of any U.S. state, drifted aimlessly around, strolled up and down the corridor, babbling endlessly to himself. And back in Louisiana, thousands of men and women, those who had voted for Earl Long and for his brother Huey and for Huey's son Russell for more than 30 years, shook their heads sadly...
Point of No Return. TV newsreels had recorded the whole session, and viewers the state over watched their screens in horrified fascination as their Governor tormented his legislature and himself. From Washington sped Earl's nephew, U.S. Senator Russell Long. Trying to save the tottering Long regime, Russell Long went before the legislature in Baton Rouge to explain his uncle's illness. Heartbroken, Earl Long's wife tried to get her husband to rest quietly. Turning on her, he accused her and Russell Long of conspiring with his enemies. He became violent, had to be locked...
...Under state law, Long could not have been involuntarily committed in Louisiana while still Governor. He would first have had to be impeached, a lengthy process which, while running its course, would have left an obviously irresponsible man at the head of the state...
...Belgium the brouhaha about Prince Albert's marriage showed signs of dying down. At issue was the fact that if Pope John XXIII performed the marriage at the Vatican, there could be no civil ceremony first, as Belgian law requires. Reason: since the Vatican is a sovereign state, it considers its own service to have civil status as well. "In a gesture of particular solicitude toward Belgium." the Pope last week helped to pacify the situation by agreeing that young Albert and Paola should be married in Brussels instead of in the Vatican...