Word: polio
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...nation's 10 million physically handicapped, telecommuting encourages new hopes of earning a livelihood. A Chicago-area organization called Lift has taught computer programming to 50 people with such devastating afflictions as polio, cerebral palsy and spinal damage. Lift President Charles Schmidt cites a 46-year-old man paralyzed by polio: "He never held a job in his life until he entered our program three years ago, and now he's a programmer for Walgreens...
DIED. Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell, 79, biochemist and winner of a 1955 Nobel Prize for his discoveries about enzymes and their role in helping the body's cells to use oxygen; of heart disease; in Stockholm. Crippled by polio as a young man, he abandoned his plan to practice medicine and went into research instead...
...there came before the Democratic Convention of 1932 a man who was so wasted by polio that he could not stand erect without leg braces, but who promised his stricken nation "a new order of competence and courage," and who declared: "This is more than a political campaign; it is a call to arms...
...vice-presidential nomination in the doomed 1920 campaign of James C. Cox. The next year, after two long days of sailing and swimming at his summer home on Campobello Island in New Brunswick, he suffered a chill that was misdiagnosed, then the horrifying paralysis of polio. He was told that he would never walk again...
...year ago Charles Crandall, 73, was spending most of his days staring at the walls of his San Francisco apartment, subsisting on solitary meals eaten out of cans. Crippled by a childhood bout with polio and suffering from heart disease, he seemed destined for a nursing home. Had that been his fate, he says, "I don't think I would be living now." Instead, California social services agencies enrolled him in a new kind of program for the elderly that allowed him to continue living in his own home. Three days a week, from...