Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Miss United Kingdom won the contest for the second straight time, and this year's Miss World competition didn't promise to be much more ladylike. When the winner was finally chosen in London's Lyceum Ballroom, green-eyed Miss Malta shrieked: "The judges must be blind!" Not at all, though they did show a certain lack of foresight in picking Miss India, Bombay Medical Student Reita Faria, 23. The new Miss World isn't especially interested in the title. Collecting her $7,000 prize money, she waved away the usual lucrative year of personal-appearance...
...People who can see have a legal duty to protect the blind. In Upper Darby, Pa., James Argo, a blind broom peddler, entered an office building to hawk his wares for the 40th time in ten years. This time, workmen had removed the floor. Argo plunged 18 feet, suffered serious injuries, and won a jury verdict of $27,500. Rejecting the landlord's appeal, the Pennsylvania court ruled that henceforth landlords must foresee potential dangers to the state's 15,000 blind citizens. Argo, held the court, was entitled to the simplest imaginable safeguard: "The defendants could have...
...good end in the pages of John O'Hara. Lissome Andrea Cooper departs through a hotel window. Jimmy Rhodes dies of a precoital heart attack. Charles Kinsmith slips on the ice and expires after a bout of total recall. John Wesley Evans discovers that he is going blind. General Dixon L. Hightower quietly turns transvestite. Even Jack Harrison aboard his luxury yacht is oppressed by the thought that his crew plans to kill...
Cramer is currently working on a machine which would make it possible for a blind student to regulate the speed of the tape he is listening to. A brighter student could progress according to his own ability, unhindered by the rest of the class...
...blind, however, comprise only a half of one percent of the nation's handicapped. There are those who are not legally blind, but who nonetheless have poor eyesight and experience difficulty reading. For these people, Cramer's technique makes talking book programs more practical. WGBH in Boston is considering broadcasting novels -- best sellers and popular mysteries -- in compressed speech two days each week...