Word: york
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Illinois campus in Carbondale, 1,000 students surrounded a small group of Iranians and virtually held them captive until police moved in. But the patience of some police is wearing thin. Assigned to guard a group of Iranian demonstrators outside the hospital where the Shah is staying, a New York City cop muttered, "Just let one of those bastards open his goddam mouth...
...Hendrie: "In some of the older sites, the population density is such that evacuation might not be entirely successful in the worst kinds of accidents." He refused to specify which plants he had in mind, but two possibilities are the ones at Indian Point, 36 miles north of New York City, and Zion, Ill., 41 miles north of Chicago...
...small Mississippi River town of New Madrid, Mo. Because the region was sparsely inhabited, few lives were lost. Still, the shocks were so powerful that they caused church bells to ring as far away as Charleston, S.C., stopped pendulum clocks in Washington, D.C., and shook buildings in New York City. No seismographs existed at the time, but detailed descriptions by survivors indicate that the intensities of the three quakes would have ranged between 7.3 and 7.5 on the Richter scale. By comparison, the big quake that destroyed San Francisco in 1906 was 8.3, and the 1964 quake in Alaska registered...
...1950s, the popularity of shock treatment began to wane. The decline was hastened by growing worry about the safety and efficacy of ECT and by charges that it was being used excessively and indiscriminately in institutions that were little more than "shock mills." Between 1972 and 1977 in New York State, for example, use of ECT dropped by 38%. Across the nation, according to a 1978 report by the American Psychiatric Association, one-third of psychiatrists have reservations about the practice...
...Other patients, for example, the elderly or those with heart conditions, cannot tolerate the medications. Drugs also tend to act more slowly and sometimes produce unpleasant side effects, notably tardive dyskinesia, uncontrollable facial and body contortions caused by lengthy use of antipsychotics. Says Dr. Stuart Yudofsky of the New York State Psychiatric Institute: "I'm not pushing the therapy. I don't work for the electric company...