Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blind and the deaf will have new sight and new hearing. A pocket radar will scan a blind man's surroundings, relay the information either through sounds or through vibrations. A comparable device will let the deaf "hear." Artificial arms and legs could be motorized and computerized, perhaps linked to the brain, so that the wearer will find his impulse translated into action. Medical men foresee fetuses grown outside the uterus (in case women want to be spared the burdens of pregnancy) and human tissues grown to specifications. The Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Willem J. Kolff prophesies "artificial...
...treatment of Spanish music so floored the audiences that he crisscrossed the country for 120 additional performances. He was feted and fawned over like a toreador. The Queen Mother, Maria Cristina, invited him to the palace for tea. King Alfonso XIII became an intimate. ("He was the most tone-deaf man I ever knew," says Rubinstein. "From the time he was seven, he was accompanied by a man assigned to nudge him whenever the national anthem was played.") His new success led to a tour of Latin America, where the Mexicans carried him through the streets on their shoulders...
...Blind & Deaf." Much has been made of the disagreements between Washington and Saigon, particularly over the bombing of Haiphong and recognition of Viet Cong representatives at any future peace conference. Actually, the differences matter little. Lyndon Johnson has ruled out the first-for the time being, at least-and Hanoi has made the second academic. More important is the fact that the leaders of the two governments met face to face for the first time and came to understand their mutual aims. Most U.S. officials were convinced that while past Vietnamese leaders might have given short shrift to the social...
...those who question the feasibility of fighting a war and building a nation at the same time, Johnson had singularly acerbic words. "They belong to a group," he said, "that has always been blind to experience and deaf to hope...
...cartoonists, it was all a matter of sharp blacks and whites, a picture etched in the vitriol of their trade. Johnson was a cranky old codger blind to criticism and deaf to dissent; he was a foolish tourist taken in by the grass skirts and leis of a Pacific tourist trap...