Word: wisconsin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trial, falling in the midst of the Korean War and the red-baiting campaign of Wisconsin's Senator Joe McCarthy, embodied the polarizations and anxieties of the era. The Rosenbergs were executed at Sing Sing two years later...
Many behavioral scientists have explored the world of the mentally ill behind hospital walls. But Estroff, a post doctoral fellow in psychiatric anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, probed a different world. She is the first live-in scientific observer to spend an extended period with a growing new cadre of mental patients: those who have been, In psychiatric jargon, "deinstitutionalized." Now totaling as many as 500,000 across the U.S., these are mental patients who are regarded as sufficiently good risks to be allowed to dwell in the community at large, yet remain under professional care as psychiatric outpatients...
...PAPERS INTERVIEWED the weeping parents of the victims, who blamed shoddy police work. They talked to his ex-wife, who divorced him after finding he "liked boys better." The reporting spread to other states. Authorities sought links to missing youths in Wisconsin, and the CBS-TV Chicago outlet ran a special report called "The House on Summerdale St." in which they stuck a microphone in the face of the Iowa judge who had presided when Gacy was convicted for sodomy several years ago. The judge was lying flat on his back in the hospital but the T.V. reporters were undeterred...
DIED. William A. Steiger, 40, genial, dynamic, six-term Republican Congressman from Wisconsin; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. A native of Oshkosh, Steiger served for six years as a state assemblyman before winning election to the U.S. Congress at age 28. A self-described moderate Republican, he co-sponsored the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, helped launch the volunteer Army, and this year proposed cutting the maximum capital gains tax from 49% to 25%. Despite opposition from President Carter, Steiger's colleagues eventually set the maximum tax rate...
...imports are ideological and theological blasphemies. Yet Ellellou himself has had his head turned by the West. At 17, he left his native village to join the French colo nial army. He served in Indochina before Dien Bien Phu and spent the middle '50s studying liberal arts in Wisconsin. Back home, married to a white college sweet heart, Ellelloū rose through the ranks under a French-puppet king and then emerged as the leader of the coup that put him in power...