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Washington's Dilemma. The advocates of a tax rise last week picked up such prominent recruits as Walter Heller, former chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers; Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, chief of the International Monetary Fund; and most important, William McChesney Martin...
...screenplay started twelve years and countless versions ago as a literal adaptation of the novel. The late Ben Hecht had three bashes at it. It was then completely rejiggered by Billy Wilder, who in turn got rewritten by Joe (Catch-22) Heller. To no avail. By last week the script du jour was the product of Terry Southern, Wolf Mankowitz and John Law. Except that Peter Sellers has winged most of his scenes, John Huston is redoing his, and Woody Allen is working up an altogether new concept...
...Judge Heller, quoted in "Prisoners" [March 25], might be surprised to learn that those "genuine subhumans" he refers to are regular humans. And his statement seems to imply that in the case of "genuine subhumans" we are justified in maintaining institutions "with few, if any, facilities for genuine treatment and rehabilitation of the mentally ill." The judge's attitudes, betrayed in remarks that at first sound like the product of an enlightened age, may indicate that we have not progressed so far in our conceptions of what constitutes mental illness as we like to think...
...Through a tragic error," ruled Judge Richard S. Heller for the New York Court of Claims last week, Prisoner Dennison was wrongly classified as a low-grade moron in 1927, declared criminally insane in 1936, and illegally confined without judicial review in a state asylum until 1960, when his half brother finally managed to win his release on a writ of habeas corpus. "Society labeled him as subhuman," declared Judge Heller, "placed him in a cage with genuine subhumans, drove him insane, and then used the insanity as an excuse for holding him indefinitely in an institution with...
...state duly returned his sole possession: the two pennies taken from him when he entered prison. Now a grey-haired, unemployed man of 57, Dennison understandably sued New York for $500,000 in damages. Last week the Court of Claims awarded him $115,000-freely admitting, in Judge' Heller's words, that "no sum of money would be adequate to compensate the claimant for the injuries he suffered and the scars which he obviously bears...