Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playhouse 90 last week staged a remarkable drama of the real-life achievement of a remarkable woman. When she was only 21, Anne Sullivan of Boston went to Tuscumbia, Ala. to be coach and tutor to seven-year-old Helen Keller, who was both blind and deaf. Annie's first act was to thrust a doll into the hands of her pupil. "When I had played with it a little while," recalled Helen Keller years later, "Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word 'd-o-l-l.' I was at once interested in this finger...
...Crippled Children. Housed in a shabby, ill-lit building on Newbury Street, the school has for 38 years been giving children with grave speech defects their chance to lead a more normal life. Some of its pupils are stammerers or have cleft palates. Others are epileptics, spastics, mongoloids or deaf-mutes. In spite of dealing with a wide range of handicaps, the school has chalked up quite a record: in the last five years it has enabled 200 once seemingly hopeless children to enroll in the regular elementary school system...
...nation's classroom and teacher shortage. In any case, WTTW is giving scores of men and women, including 52 who are handicapped, their only chance to go to college. Among the handicapped: a totally paralyzed 22-year-old who must depend on a rocking bed to breathe; a deaf girl who finds that she can easily read her professors' lips on TV; a blind woman of 55 who tape-records each lecture, plays it back to herself until she has mastered it. Says she: "I don't care if I flunk. These courses are giving me something...
...Deaf Ear. Though the threat of war had temporarily diminished, his British allies continued to do their best to convince King Hussein that this was no time for Jordan to be holding elections. Hussein, whose overriding objective is to maintain his popularity with his mercurial subjects, turned a deaf ear to these appeals. Said he: "The elections will be held," and at week's end they were, in an atmosphere of surprising calmness...
...unpretentious white $10,000 Continental Mark II, Presley groaned a request to have his car's gas tank checked for a leak. Fumes were hurting his eyes, like. As the manager complied, a mob of gawkers and autograph hounds materialized, and traffic was soon jammed. Deaf to the manager's pleas to hit the trail, The Pelvis ecstatically kept on signing things thrust at him. Temper frayed, the manager bopped the singer on the back of his ducktailed coiffure. The blow made Elvis real mad. Side burns bristling, he rolled out of the car and rocked the manager...