Word: cordes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn firsthand the story of Errett-Lobban Cord's emergence as a Nevada politician, TIME'S Los Angeles Bureau Chief Frank McCulloch flew into Reno, got the onetime auto tycoon's consent to a half-hour interview. But the meeting continued 5½ hours because Cord, now an Esmeralda County rancher, discovered that McCulloch had been raised on a ranch in Nevada's Lyon County. For what Returning Native McCulloch learned, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The New-Model Cord...
...vacationers pumped the slot machines and queued up for ten-course $1.25 lunches. And at a state convention in Hawthorn (pop. 3,700), Nevada's Democratic Party was practically taken over lock, stock and barrel by one of the most remarkable new figures in U.S. politics: Errett Lobban Cord, sometime Wall Street tycoon and longtime millionaire recluse, now turned glad-handing vote chaser...
...this far, honey, I'll get home yet," muttered Roy Campanella to his wife after his car overturned three months ago and landed him in a Long Island hospital with an injured spinal cord. The great Dodger catcher still has a long way to go. He is paralyzed in all four limbs. Whether he will walk again, with or without braces and crutches, is still in doubt. But last week his doctors announced that they will soon move him to one of the few places in the world where anything can be done for him: the Institute of Physical...
...therapists, psychiatrists, vocational counselors, social workers, bracemakers and rehab's own special physicians, the physiatrists. They begin with a precise analysis of how much physical capacity remains, seek out the spine level at which muscles are no longer connected with the brain. Where possible, points of spinal-cord compression have been relieved by neurosurgery; uncontrollable muscle spasms are lessened by various nerve-cutting operations. Once he knows his capacity, the patient is ready to develop it "from...
...good friend, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, on both cheeks, then shook hands with Director of French Museums Georges Salles, down from Paris for the occasion -the unveiling of Picasso's much heralded 32-by-29-ft. mural for UNESCO's new Paris headquarters. Picasso yanked the cord, pulling back the concealing curtain. The result was a surprise to Picasso as well as the spectators. Picasso had painted the mural on 40 separate wood panels in his studio. Seeing the panels assembled for the first time, he stared intently, then exclaimed: "It's quite good-better than...