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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennsylvania: You Know I'M Guilty - Kill Me | 11/11/1985 | See Source »

...Sylvia Maxfield, a fifth-year graduate student, was once a student of Dominguez. She says she filed a sexual misconduct complaint against him, charging that he had both sexually harassed her and tried to pit her against the junior professor whose sexual harassment complaint resulted in Dominguez's discipline. Harvard as a matter of policy does not discuss specific cases or their settlements (Harvard's announcement of the Hibbs resignation was an extraordinary exception...

Author: By Kristin A. Goss, | Title: Sexual Harassment: Lesson or Legacy? | 10/4/1985 | See Source »

Wayne and Sylvia Daniel, the MAC- 10's Georgia-based manufacturers, responded to the ATF decision with beefed-up advertising. The Daniels increased their sales from $1.1 million in 1979 to $4 million in 1981. Business collapsed when the Government reclassified the gun as an automatic weapon in 1982, but the Daniels got around the restriction by marketing a $300 MAC-10 kit that could be used to build a rapid-fire pistol with parts available from another company. In June a grand jury in Fresno, Calif., indicted the Daniels and two others on charges of conspiring to manufacture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Further Signs of Stress | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...Shriver ousted sixth-seeded Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria and number seven Zina Garrison Stopped west Germany's Sylvia Hanika in first-round matches of the $500.000 Virginia Slims Tennis championships last night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Scoreboard | 3/21/1985 | See Source »

Third period 7, H, Julie Sasner (Dinny Starr) 2:54. 8, H, Liz Ward (Landry) 3:11. 9, N, Toney (Tracy Hill, Sylvia) 10:58. 10, N, Toney (unassisted) 13:06. Penalties--Murphy, N (roughing) 0:30; Cardinale, N (hooking) 1:42; Starr, H (tripping) 4:41; Burns, H (holding) 7:18; Cardinale, N (hooking...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Harvard Falls to Northeastern, 8-2 In Women's Beanpot Opener | 2/6/1985 | See Source »

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