Word: bed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the 50 broken bones he had already suffered as a motorcycle stunt man, Evel Knievel was back last week, hurtling his way to fame, fortune and another hospital bed. Knievel came to London's Wembley Stadium to attempt a leap over 13 single-decker buses. Twelve might have been better. The spectacular 100-m.p.h. jump, which began with Evel atop the bike, ended 140 feet later with the bike on top of Evel. "I will never jump again," he announced to a crowd of 60,000 after aides had helped him struggle to a microphone. Following a night...
...think about women? There are no good clues." Steiger stars in the film W.C. Fields and Me with Valerie Perrine, who portrays the former movie extra who lived with Fields for many years. He has studied for his role by watching old Fields movies at home and going to bed at night with the comedian's recorded voice playing through his earphones. "There are some remarkable similarities in our lives," says the actor. "Fields left home at eleven; I left home at twelve. He worked delivering ice in Philly; I worked delivering ice in Newark." The physical similarities...
...Others provide their patients with at least good, competent care. They come in all sizes, under highly diverse sponsorship. Members of Southern California's Japanese community need have no qualms about placing their parents in Los Angeles' Keiro (which translates as Home for Respected Elders), a 184-bed facility that bespeaks the Oriental tradition that old age should be a time of ease. Keiro's appeal ranges from chaste Japanese decor to good food served from a gleaming stainless-steel kitchen. The home also has a largely bilingual staff that is genuinely interested in the welfare...
...York. Authorities in Illinois are investigating not only suspected fraud but also the deaths of seven patients in a home in Rockford. California officials have turned up even more disturbing evidence. Los Angeles County investigators reported that a paralyzed woman at the Torrance Medical Convalescent Center, a 212-bed nursing home in Torrance, Calif., died after a nurse tried to feed her orally rather than through a stomach tube, then dismissed her gasping and flailing as an attempt to burn off "excess energy." The victim was not the only patient to die at Torrance, whose license to operate is being...
...next ride was a converted school bus, complete with pot-bellied stove and deluxe double - bed spread out in back. The ceiling was covered with colored patches of rugs. At one point the driver reach up and pulled one of the patches down to reveal a stash, then passed some joints around. I felt good in the bus; but I didn't smoke any. I was drowsy and it reminded me of home, and home seemed further away than when I started out. Even though the eucalyptus smelled so good, I would be home soon...