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...year prison sentence. The duchess, whose title* is one of the most venerated in her country, was convicted of illegal protest when she led the villagers of Palomares on a protest trip to Madrid on the first anniversary of the crash of a U.S. bomber bearing a load of H-bombs near the town...
...pressures of a trial exaggerate legitimate disagreements still further. Defendants claiming insanity are most often accused of the crimes for which juries have least sympathy: murder, armed robbery, arson or rape. Hence defense lawyers load their questions to experts, hoping to produce answers convincing enough to overcome the layman's often exaggerated presumption of sanity. Says Psychiatrist Edward Stainbrook, "If one side strays from observation to inference, the other side has no choice but to make its own inferences...
...time suggesting that he is grasping, incompetent and unconcerned with his patients' needs. Physicians' fees have risen, but not out of proportion with the cost of living. Their disproportionate increase in income in recent years is due in large part to a massive increase in their patient load. This is due to rising population, Medicare, Medicaid, and, most importantly, to increasing patient respect and confidence in the physician. The fact that more physicians have not been produced by the medical schools is not because of A.M.A. obstructionism but because of the inability of private schools to finance additions...
...faculty might consider whether some release from the burdens of the current six-course load in the second semester should be given to students who undertake major individual research on their own. Supervision of such research would be facilitated through hiring of more teaching fellows and greater use of upperclass students...
John Humphreys, a freshman proctor, is offering a seminar on "Africa Since 1800." He said that he wants to keep the seminar somewhat unstructured so that each seminar member can follow his individual interests in Africa. The seminar will emphasize extensive discussion and a light reading load...