Word: deaf
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATRE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Sal Mineo, Jo Van Fleet and Albert Dekker in a drama about a deaf-mute apprentice cabinetmaker who is framed for the murder of his boss...
Mama Meg comes to the rescue in a high declamatory style that would send a deaf-mute up the wall. Untoppable and unstoppable in a slanging natch, she routs the foxy old camp director and triumphantly bears Joseph off, clucking: "Did your mother ever let you down? Will you please learn to put your last buck down on this baby...
...begin the process of education without hopeless handicaps. In one particularly dramatic case, a 4½-year-old boy, already given to wild behavior, was adjudged retarded; not until he was referred by an alert day-care teacher to a pediatrician was he found to be almost totally deaf. Enrolled in a special school, he was discovered, in time, to be of near-genius intelligence...
...governor and a front-running candidate in any future presidential election. Returning from a trip abroad, Lacerda had two cordial meetings with Castello Branco, then turned around and stormed that "a revolution that hides from the people is no longer a revolution but a coup." His invective fell on deaf ears; many of Lacerda's own U.D.N. Party members in Congress rebelled and joined other Senators and Deputies in a majority approval of the bill...
Johnson also had the unusual experience of making a speech that his audience did not hear. At a centennial banquet at Gallaudet College in Washington, the only U.S. college for the deaf, Johnson spoke slowly, had his words translated into sign language by the college's dean of women, Elizabeth Benson...