Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Republican side, the delegate outcome was uncertain because the state elects delegates through a "blind ballot" system. ABC News last night projected that Reagan garnered 44 of the state's 83 delegates, to Bush...
...John Wilson strides into his office outside London, his hands at waist level, his fingers spread like antennae. Easing into a chair, he turns to a visitor and launches into a discussion of his life's work. Through his Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness, Wilson in the past three decades has helped establish blindness centers in over 80 nations. These centers are designed primarily to help those of the world's 42 million blind whose sight can be restored -and to prevent the diseases that still cause most...
...school accident at the age of twelve, not disease, that cost Wilson his sight. Resolutely, he went on to take a degree in law and sociology at Oxford, then to aid the British war effort by placing the blind at work alongside sighted people in factories-"making shell cases and bits and pieces of transport vehicles and aircraft." After the war, at 26, Wilson was sent on a Commonwealth tour to make a survey of people blinded during the conflict. Everywhere he encountered the sightless. But it soon became evident that malnutrition and disease, not bullets and shrapnel, had cost...
...Cataracts, the clouding of the eye's lens, have blinded millions of people in Asia and the Indian subcontinent. In these areas, surgery costing as little as $5 per patient can remove the occluded lens and restore some vision. Wilson reaches the cataract victims by setting up temporary eye camps in remote villages. There surgeons perform more than 100 operations per day on patients from the surrounding area. When a blind man's relatives lead him in, says Wilson, "they are usually bossing him around, bored with having to care for this useless invalid. After the operation, when...
Wilson, whose efforts on behalf of the blind were recognized last year when he won the prestigious Albert Lasker Special Public Service Award, has a powerful ally for his crusade. The World Health Organization has launched a drive to eliminate preventable blindness by the year 2000. In the meantime, Wilson plans to continue, as the title of his autobiography puts it, Travelling Blind, to give others the gift of sight...