Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left-handed-there have been dozens of similar operations performed. In at least half the cases the surgery failed. Most should never have been tried, argues the A.M.A. "If the patient has one good leg, the other should not be replanted. The chances of neurologic recovery are poor, the handicap of a shortened extremity severe, and the value of a prosthesis great enough that the patient is served best with a good stump and an artificial limb. An entire arm should not usually be restored to a patient over 40 if he has one good arm. Recovery of protective sensation...
...term doldrums that descend on most Presidents. He has also, doubtless, been hurt by a variety of troubles-the Viet Nam war, rising prices, big-city Negro riots-that are only partially of his making, if at all. He suffers nonetheless from a unique and painful handicap that Washington observers have come to call "the personality problem...
...UNITED NATIONS HANDICAP (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). The $100,000 race for three-year-olds broadcast live from Atlantic City. Among the entries will be minion-dollar winner Buckpasser...
...Mays has been playing for 16 years, and he is beginning to act-or at least talk-like a man approaching middle age. He no longer gleefully plays stickball with the kids in the street; golf (9 handicap) is his leisure game. He speaks of his retirement day as if it were almost within reach, doesn't hesitate to mention that "I need my rest"-ten or twelve hours a night. He neither smokes nor drinks...
...being serialized meanwhile in Good Housekeeping. The First Lady bombarded him with memos, "usually in outrage," protesting "deficiencies in my efforts to preserve the privacy of the children." One little-known factor with in the Kennedy menage was the President's allergy to animal fur-a handicap he bore nobly in view of the expansive zoo of dogs, hamsters, ponies and other pets maintained by the Kennedy children. One of the hamsters doubtless attained rodentian nirvana by drowning in the presidential bathtub...