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Whereas many schools for the deaf, especially in Europe, insist that their students learn to lip-read-theoretically, to make their handicap as unnoticeable as possible-Gallaudet favors a "total communications" approach. Signed English, or manual translation of the language, is used in classes as the teachers speak their lectures, while Ameslan, or American Sign Language, a grammatically different and faster sign language, is used by some teachers and is popular among the students out of class. Since many Gallaudet students enroll with vocabulary deficiencies, especially if they are deaf from birth, a preparatory year is added to the normal...
...ranked in the top 20% of his class of 179, Hartman needed extraordinary dedication to overcome his handicap. In accepting him, Temple waived only a few visual skills-for example, reading X rays. Otherwise, he was required to fulfill all the requirements. That forced Hartman to use considerable ingenuity. In gross anatomy classes, for instance, to take advantage of the sensitivity of his fingertips, he shunned the rubber gloves worn by his classmates when poking around in cadavers-until his fingers became numb from the preservative formaldehyde...
...revive the old schisms, and represents normality. The economic recovery works in his favor, and Yankelovich's surveys show that he has won heavy support from people who are optimistic about the nation's future. He is, moreover, seen as an honest, undevious, trustworthy man. A Ford handicap in the current anti-Washington mood is that he is considered one of the run-of-the-mill, "institutional" politicians...
...Hasty Road's maternal grandsire is Discovery, a champion racer and an excellent sire. Other daughters of Discovery include Miss Disco, Bold Ruler's dam, and Geisha, the dam of Native Dancer. Discovery is by Display, who is by the sire of Man O' War and is a legendary handicap horse...
Even in isolation, Hughes devised methods that made him highly effective as a wheeler and dealer. His deteriorating health was, of course, a handicap, but at times when he felt strong, his mind was sharp and clear. Until as late as 1972, he retained the overall control of his empire by poring over his companies' performance reports, peppering aides with memos and reading a wide selection of the nation's press. He orchestrated the activities of his aides down to the last detail and closely supervised their business transactions...