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...disabled Americans, recovering from disease or accidents, sorely need its help in getting back to life. Most in need: paraplegics (both legs disabled), quadriplegics (both arms and legs) and hemiplegics (one side of the body). For them, "rehab" is a stirring technique of hope, sweat and moral grit-and for the majority, it has worked...
...Army and its missilemen "were in the position of a patient that has been given a death sentence by the doctor -but we kind of refused to die." How the Army patient survived to launch the first successful U.S. satellite is a history of groans, gall-and grit...
...cold afternoon at Fresh Pond. Their hands, ears, and toes were painfully cold, the ice was rough, and they were both poor skaters. There was no chance for a good talk, but Roosevelt kept saying, "Isn't this perfectly bully?" Not to be outdone, Welling had to agree. "I gritted my teeth," Welling said later, "resolved not to be the first to quit. It took every ounce of grit in me. One hour we skated or scuffled about, then a second hour, and not until well on into the third, with obvious regret, did he suggest home...
...show the right side of things, Grit has a staff of 22 headed by Editor Kenneth Dean Rhone, 50, a staffer for 26 years, who got his start, while a student at the University of Michigan, as "director of tourist publicity" for hometown Williamsport's Chamber of Commerce. Editor Rhone gets steady contributions from a corps of 100 part-time correspondents around the nation, carries weekly some $20,000 worth of ads. Grit comes out in three editions each week: city and area (40,000), state (112,000) and national (728,000). Subscriptions are almost all hustled...
...world . . . The Sputniks don't mean that we'll live in a decadent America," says Publisher Lamade. "We've got to be realistic, but it's the direction in which we're headed that counts. Right and moral values will prevail in the end. Grit will remain optimistic, informative, entertaining, inspirational and forward-looking. Grit will be eternally vigilant...