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...screenplay, itself, is oversimplified. Starting with Kennedy's blinding by a German sniper, it traces his hospitalization and rehabilitation. But all of his problems are assumed related to his physical defect. No mention is made of his civilian life, or the possibility that blindness might have compounded former problems. This kind of treatment might be effective for an educational film; it leaves a large gap in a supposed piece of cinematic...
...probability is that constitutional susceptibility is inherited and that the specific defect is brought about by stress," he commented...
Ingalls and co-workers have shown that many deformities previously thought to be inherited are brought on in large part by unfavorable environment before birth--by, injury, illness or some other defect in the pregnant mother...
...White mice," he explained, "had severe deformities of the brain, skull and skeleton when the mother had too little oxygen on the eighth day of pregnancy. Cleft palate was a common result of exposure on the 14th day, and a curious defect of the eye and eyelids--so-called 'open eye'--when the pregnancy had advanced to about sixteen days...
...Ingalls emphasized that the stage of pregnancy and the lack of oxygen were not the only factors in determining the nature and extent of the defect...