Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were ready to claim that he had chipped off any of the Solid South's electoral votes. But he had won thousands of individual votes, and was making plans for more campaigning below the Mason-Dixon Line. Ike has a fighting chance to carry Texas, Louisiana, Florida and Virginia. In other Southern states, he has about as much chance as a Democrat has in Vermont: hardly...
...time he finished his experiments with patients in West Virginia mental hospitals last month, Washington Neurologist Walter Freeman had supervised or performed more than 200 of these transor-bital lobotomies (TIME, May 28, 1951) in two weeks. He already had more than 1 ,000 other lobotomies to his credit. Many doctors still doubt the wisdom of Dr. Freeman's surgery. "Lobotomy,"explained one psychiatrist last week, "is an operation of deduction rather than addition." It does irreparable damage to that part of the brain which is believed to control reason and judgment. It should only be used...
Many psychiatrists also hesitate before the uncertain results of lobotomy. Completely successful, the operation may relieve a patient's tensions. It can also eliminate fear of pain. Dr. Freeman estimates that within six months, 100 of his West Virginia patients will have improved enough to leave the hospital. And getting people out of mental hospitals is his main objective...
America First. For President (without his consent), General Douglas MacArthur; for Vice President (without his consent), Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. Party Chairman Lar Daly, a Chicago businessman, has requested MacArthur to maintain "a dignified silence," but Party Chaplain E. Douglas MacArthur of Bensenville, Ill. is sure that the general, whom he claims as a second cousin, "is watching our progress with great interest." Progress to date: petition to get on the Illinois ballot rejected because it was submitted without the outside binding required...
...June day last year, two Mennonite lay missionaries set out from their homes in Virginia as traveling evangelists. Lawrence Brunk and his brother George, a professor of Bible studies at Eastern Mennonite College in Harrisonburg, Va., had pooled their resources (mainly $35,000 which Lawrence had made on his chicken farm). They bought a tent big enough to seat 1,500 people, a truck to carry it and a trailer for Lawrence, his wife and three children to live...