Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fifth Among 2,000. Sent to an Athens school for the blind after the war, he found that he was unable to read Braille with the numbed fingers of his left hand; he learned to use his tongue, even though he was scolded for wetting the books. Because he could not take written entrance exams, Georgakakis was barred from high school and relegated to making brooms and brushes with his teeth, a future he could not bear. Then, when he was 20, a new law allowed him to take oral exams. With the aid of a tape recorder, the gift...
...exams. Reason: Georgakakis, 33, has no eyes, an artificial right hand, and only one finger on his left hand that has any sense of touch. A onetime Cretan shepherd boy who received his disabilities from a German mine explosion in 1944, Georgakakis uses the tip of his tongue to "read" Braille, got through law school by tape-recording and memorizing 60,000 pages of legislation. Highly impressed by his showing, the bar examiners took an unprecedented step: they urged every imaginable government and business leader to hire the winner at once, declaring that his blindness "bears witness to his exceptional...
After graduating from high school, he enlisted in the Army for an uneventful two years. Discharged, he enrolled in the University of Illinois, largely because of another student there named Millie Gunn. While at Illinois, Hefner read Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male. It came as a revelation, and he wrote an indignant review in the campus humor magazine. "Our moral pretenses," he said, "our hypocrisy on matters of sex, have led to incalculable frustration, delinquency and unhappiness. One of these days," he promised, "I'm going to do an editorial on the subject...
...bring some New York know-how and sophistication (a favorite Playboy word) to the magazine. "Spec" has done that and more. Last summer he hired as fiction editor Robie Macauley, who had been running the distinguished Kenyon Review. "I was familiar with Playboy," says Macauley. "The students at Kenyon read it?so did the clergy. Besides, a magazine like this matures as it goes along...
...eloquent pleas for abolishing the draft and capital punishment, and a defense of the right to privacy by Senator Edward Long. Long, long question-and-answer interviews, some of them aggressive and stimulating, lately recorded the views of Fidel Castro, Mark Lane and Norman Thomas?just the thing to read aloud to a date in front of the fire, he wearing a Playboy sweater, she wearing Playmate perfume...