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...fitted with glasses at the age of four, and he suggests that poor eyesight had something to do with his preference for thinking in wholes rather than parts. In any case, the career that follows is a classic case of a man of long vision in a nearsighted world. Fuller grew up during an age of mechanical wizardry. In 1889, the Eiffel Tower revolutionized building. At the turn of the century Count Zeppelin had, in effect, laid a covered tower on its side, filled it with gas and floated off. Marconi sent a wireless message across the Atlantic. The Wright...
...have to work very hard the first few classes to make the students come back," says Nely Rodriguez, who has been teaching for Mobral since 1970. "They are wonderful people, but they get discouraged easily. They are undernourished and tired. Many have poor eyesight, and lots don't know how to hold a pen. If you can get them to stay for a few classes, the battle...
Medieval Fury. But for too many in the province, life can never again be normal. Not for the 11-year-old Londonderry boy, just back from a futile trip to Boston in a quest to regain his eyesight, which was destroyed by one of the British army's six-inch-long rubber antiriot bullets. Not for the 22-year-old Catholic girl maimed on the eve of her wedding when the Irish Republican Army bombed a Belfast restaurant. "Two legs gone, one arm sheared off, an eye lost, all in one young female body," said Dublin's Irish...
...place looks like a living wax museum." The occasion: the 100th birthday of Adolph Zukor, who imported the U.S.'s first feature movie (Queen Elizabeth, starring Sarah Bernhardt), and founded Paramount Pictures. "I don't see many movies today," said Zukor, hunched over his cane, "because my eyesight isn't too good. I would work in pictures today if I were a young man." Zukor accepted homage from people like Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Jack Benny, Diana Ross and Michael Caine. There were rose petals (70 packages of them), a rope of flowers and a real live...
...also," he continued, "that we must replace the counter revolutionary line in education which before the Cultural Revolution, had wasted the students time and eyesight...