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...millions of dollars all over the country." As for the Blue Bird's owner, things were looking up. Not only did he seem likely to get a good hunk of the $400,000 he had sued for, but he had finally succeeded in selling two more apartments-to deaf...
Complaints fell largely on deaf ears until one morning last December when Press Secretary Bill Moyers awoke to discover that two hulking rats had been caught in carefully baited traps in his Driskill room. All of a sudden, the press had a powerful convert to its cause. Moyers dispatched aides to San Antonio to look into accommodations there; San Antonio sent lobbyists to Washington. The next time Johnson decided to visit Texas, Moyers put the press up in San Antonio...
...grotesque phantasm of further mutilations follows. The Gnadiges Fraulein is a deaf ex-diva (Leighton) who loses one eye and then the other to the coca-loony birds of the Florida Keys, whom she battles for throwaway fish from incoming sloops. A cocaloony bird struts around on stage looking rather like a giant pelican with a Ph.D., and an Indian in a red, white and blue monokini war-whoops things up. The locale is "the Big Dormitory," and on the porch of this flophouse rock two marijuana-smoking harpies, a slatternly clown (Kate Reid), who runs the joint...
...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...