Word: york
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Robert C. Hunt, born in Egypt of U.S. missionary parents, was assistant commissioner in New York's department of mental hygiene in 1955 when he went to Europe and first saw open hospitals, including Mapperley. Says Dr. Hunt now: "I saw and was converted. It was like scales dropping off my eyes." In 1957 he became director of Hudson River State Hospital on the edge of Poughkeepsie, 80 miles north of New York City. Of its nearly 6,000 patients, only 16% were then in open wards...
...Snow, 50, had got a head start at St. Lawrence, partly because it is the smallest of New York's 18 state hospitals (never more than 2,300 patients), partly because it is the biggest employer in Ogdensburg (pop. 17,000). Many city officials, including the mayor, are on the hospital staff. Ogdensburgers pay little attention when patients with downtown privileges wander through the stores. For Dr. Hunt at Hudson River, it was tougher. Poughkeepsie (pop. 40,500) is all but surrounded by custodial institutions, some for violent criminals, and the people of Dutchess County have a horror...
...striking feature at St. Lawrence, which is now 100% open, and in varying degrees at all New York's other state hospitals (average: 66% open), is the transformation of the wards. Gone are the dreary wooden benches, where patients dressed in Mother Hubbards (when they were not undressing themselves) sat listless, sometimes in their own excrement. Instead there is modern, comfortable furniture. Windows, no longer barred, have gay curtains or draperies with drawstrings. Instead of glaring ceiling lights, there are bridge and table lamps. Glass vases hold cut flowers. Plant stands are loaded with potted violets. Glass tumblers...
...American World Airways Captain Robert Fordyce, a New York-based executive recruiter, takes 20% of the first year's salary of each of the $20,000 executives he places in industry each year...
CASH DIVIDENDS on common stocks listed on New York Stock Exchange rose to record high of $6.7 billion during first nine months, 5.4% higher than in same period...