Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road to Calvary is lined with the usual yea-verily types (Claude Rains as Herod the Great, Charlton Heston as John the Baptist) plus, it would seem, any other celebrity ready to trade top billing for a chance to play holy charades. Jesus cures a cripple (Sal Mineo), a blind man (Ed Wynn) and a leper (Shelley Winters). He bears his cross under the stern eye of Roman Centurion John Wayne. Veronica is Carroll Baker, who mops his brow, and-in a labored salute to brotherhood-he gets a helping hand from Simon of Cyrene (Sidney Poitier). Such coy vignettes...
...McDonald, Abel represented the forces that want to take unionism back to the bad old days, to the picket lines, bloody street fights, and a blind, unimaginative refusal to accept any of the compromises that are necessary to responsible collective bargaining...
...other economists leaped into the fray, blasting the "cult of the plan," and insisting that plant managers be given more autonomy. The eminent Nemchinov himself, fast going blind and nearing the end of his life (he died last October at the age of 70), called for something very close to a state-owned market economy. Planning decrees would be replaced by contracts between enterprises and the government, with the lowest bidder getting a particular job-and setting its prices as a result...
Checking services in U.S. banks range from automatic bill paying to zebra-striped checkbooks. But until now the banks have largely ignored the special needs of the 1,000,000 present or potential customers who are blind. Last week Manhattan's Chemical Bank New York Trust Co. produced a solution to one difficult problem of the sightless: how to write a check without aid. The bank showed off a Braille checkwriter that consists of an aluminum plate into which the sightless insert a special check. Guided by cutouts in the device, they can write the necessary data. There...
...Peter Hurd and his wife Henriette Wyeth Hurd captured a true likeness. His squinting, almost closed eyes are a most graphic illustration of his myopic, if not blind, views of many of the situations now facing this country...