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...returning. Says she: "My right arm was hanging by my side. I began to get frightened." Seeking help, Ragans visited the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation in Georgia, named for perhaps the most famous polio victim, President Franklin D. Roosevelt. There doctors finally diagnosed her problem: post-poliomyelitis muscular atrophy, an affliction that strikes many former polio patients with symptoms that in some ways mimic the original disease. Across the U.S., PPMA is affecting more and more of the 300,000 American survivors of the great polio epidemics. People who decades ago recovered enough to abandon their crutches, wheelchairs...
Before Los Angeles, commentators predicted the death of the Olympics as a form: too political, too nationalistic. The Los Angeles crowds were often rudely nationalistic. But the Games transcended that partisanship. Part of the charm of an Olympics is that we are for those days represented by bright, eager, muscular youth, intensely alive. They become us, they embody us. Their acts become ours. From this identification flows a sense of pride and possibility and renewal...
...limited measures that Harvard has taken to accommodate the handicapped--for instance to make some of the houses partially accessible--are not always good enough, according to students. James B. Thomas '86, a Quincy House resident with an undiagnosed form of muscular dystrophy, complains that he must pass through the Quincy kitchen to get to the dining hall...
...Common was the site of another attack three days later, when two teenagers assaulted another unidentified student Tuesday night, police said. The victim described the assailants as one white male, about 17 years of age, 5'7", with a muscular build, light hair and a dark jacket; and another white male, also about 17 years old, with dark hair...
...contentious opinions to face evidence of such astounding unanimity. We ought to know, then, what this long-anticipated re-election means, what it says about America. Do we know? Mondale supporters suggest that we have become a nation of hedonists and Mammon worshipers. Reaganites, that we want a muscular America and Government off our backs. Does anyone here regard things so simply...