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...process, magnify images by 30% and leave the patient with limited peripheral vision. Contact lenses produce less distortion and permit peripheral vision but can be irritating to the eyes, difficult to insert and easy to lose-especially for elderly or arthritic cataract patients who are practically sightless without their lenses...
...Their objections focus on the book's two ne'er-do-wells, the Fox and the Cat, shiftless schemers posing as mendicants who are lame (the Fox) and blind (the Cat), while merrily fleecing the gullible young puppet. By the end of the tale, the Cat is truly sightless and minus a paw, while the Fox does not fare too well either?he ends up thin, almost hairless and without a tail...
When David Hartman entered Temple University School of Medicine in 1972, even some of his professors doubted that he would complete the rigorous four-year course of study. But Hartman, 26, who has been blind since the age of eight from glaucoma and is the first sightless American medical student in this century (TIME, April 29, 1974), has surprised the skeptics. In a few weeks the physician-to-be will receive his medical degree, and he hopes to become a psychiatrist...
There is one significant difference between Hartman and his classmates. While it is not unusual for students to feel that they are in the dark during their difficult transit through medical school, that is literally true for Hartman. He is blind-the first sightless student to be accepted by a medical school in this century. Nonetheless, he is in the top quarter of his class...
...competitors from a dozen countries, there were college kids out for a lark, aging jocks in flowered bathing suits competing on a dare, drinking companions who planned to pace themselves with stops at wayside taverns and-officially for only the second year-women of all ages. Alfred Ventrillo, a sightless, 65-year-old pensioner, was running "to inspire blind people." Author Erich Segal was toting a portable microphone to record his on-the-run comments for a TV show. Sauer danced nervously to loosen up his legs. Later he recalled thinking: "It's finally here. You've been...