Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tree is heavily decorated with candy canes, gingerbread cookies, and toys mostly made by the blind and selected by Jacqueline Kennedy; it stands 16 ft. high in the main lobby near the Blue Room, which was itself closed because it is being redone partially in white. There is a crèche with exquisite. 18th century Neapolitan figures in the East Room. Some 1,200 members of the White House staff who last week attended the annual staff Christmas party received prints of a watercolor by Pennsylvania Artist Edward Lehman showing the Red Room as it has recently been redecorated...
...heyday for scientists studying England's fogs, a unique compound of sulphur dioxide, chemical wastes, coal smoke, gasoline and diesel fumes. (The sulphur level alone last week reached 14 times the normal concentration.) The Ministry of Aviation had been waiting for just this chance to test its new blind-flying system for bad weather landings, rushed a plane in to touch down successfully at London Airport. For Washington's Dr. Richard Prindle, a U.S. Government air-pollution specialist, it was the opportunity of a decade. Rushing across the Atlantic, he was diverted to Frankfurt, arrived twelve hours late...
...patient, who had been injured in a collision between his light car and a heavy truck, was deaf, blind and speechless; he had no reflexes at all, and he did not show any pain reactions. The full medical diagnosis, reported in the magazine Medical World News, reads like a lengthening catalogue of doom...
...Office of Education needs upgrading, say critics, because the Federal Government is flying blind in education. Congress now earmarks some $2 billion a year to aid education, but no one agency coordinates the hundreds of programs that spend the money. Though fearful of federal control, U.S. schools and colleges need authoritative appraisal of a confusing multiplicity of proposed academic reforms (teaching machines, language labs, "new math"); yet the Office of Education's research program is too small to be of much use. The Office has less influence in Congress, for example, than the National Education Association. Keppel...
...large part a cover-up for her small repertory. She could not have honored most requests if she had wanted to. Actually, friends insist, she is honest and sincere to a fault, sensitive, kind and confused. She once worked to near exhaustion at the Perkins School for the Blind near Boston...