Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movie's opening scenes establish the unreal tone which Director Kubrick adeptly maintains for the remaining two hours. While the titles are flashed on the screen, Humbert Humbert (James Mason) is shown behind them giving a manicure treatment to Lolita (Sue Lyon). The movie proper opens with the scene that ends the book. Gun in pocket, James Mason stalks into Clare Quilty's (Peter Sellers) mansion, and commits an amusing if horrifying murder. Sellers is superb as he tries to talk the insane Humbert out of killing him--an unshaven, hungover ping-pong player...
...Charles Laughton, 63, jowly, stentorian actor, spending his third month in a Hollywood hospital suffering from what his doctors now announce is cancer of the lower spine; Eleanor Roosevelt, 77, whose annual week-long checkup at a Manhattan hospital was extended for treatment of an infectious lung condition; Edward R. Murrow, 54, chain-smoking chief of the U.S. Information Agency, in a U.S. Army hospital in Teheran, Iran, with a "mild" case of pneumonia; Otto E. Passman, 62. congressional foe of foreign aid. who tripped over some plastic clothing bags in his Washington office and broke his left...
...eleven tumors of the pituitary gland, which can upset the body's hormone balance so severely as to cause both physical and mental illness. In similar surveys, said Dr. Kraft, other radiologists detected tumors of the brain covering that had gone unsuspected during months or years of psychiatric treatment. The tumors can usually be removed surgically, with good chances of relieving the emotional disturbances of which they are the indirect cause...
...psychotics. This finding tells nothing yet about the origin or probable course of the patients' illnesses, Dr. Kraft emphasized. But the obvious next step is to examine the hormone balance of the mental patients, correct it if necessary, then see whether this makes psychiatric treatment more effective...
Phillips' lawyers immediately filed notice of appeal. But whatever the final outcome, Prosecutor John W. Miner is confident that the case will help to protect cancer patients whose disease can be cured, or at least alleviated, by standard medical treatment-if quacks do not talk them...