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When Cincinnati Clockmaker Joseph Bochenek took his son Chris, 12, to visit George Wallace in Montgomery, it was not to offer the Alabama Governor his political support. Bochenek wanted Wallace's support for his own drive to raise funds for research into spinal injuries and to boost his son's morale. Young Chris lost the use of his legs when a friend accidentally shot him in the spine just five days before the assassination attempt on Wallace. When the two paralytics got together, it was obvious that they were not down in spirits. Counseled Wallace: "The fact that...
Reaching passenger gates should be easy via a ten-lane, 55-m.p.h. spinal highway between the two rows of superterminals (the four now operating will become 13 by 2001). DFW Executive Director Thomas Sullivan, who oversaw the building of La Guardia, Newark and J.F.K. airports, chose a simple semicircular terminal design that allows passengers to drive directly to one of 66 gates, which are all within 120 ft. of the airplanes. Older terminal designs, which often park airplanes at the ends of long "fingers," may entail hikes of as much as a quarter-mile from counter to plane...
Until recently, osteopathic schools accepted candidates with poorer educational qualifications than did ordinary medical schools and gave inferior training, with excessive emphasis on spinal manipulation. That is no longer generally true. Most of the nation's seven surviving osteopathic schools have raised their standards and incorporated more general medical subjects in their curriculums. Their graduates are permitted the same professional privileges as M.D.s in all 50 states. Moreover, in 36 states, including Georgia, osteopaths must pass exactly the same examination as M.D.s before they can be licensed to practice. Oliver passed such an exam in Georgia...
Heaven Sent. The Los Angeles clinic also deals with many of the other problems connected with dwarfism. Some dwarfs have severe spinal defects that can lead to paralysis if not promptly treated. Others suffer from deteriorating vision and a wide variety of orthopedic problems that most doctors cannot correctly diagnose or treat. Mrs. Estrella Sberna of Los Angeles took her daughter Mary Lou, 12, to dozens of different doctors for problems ranging from a cleft palate to flat feet. But it was only at the clinic that Mary Lou began to receive proper treatment after doctors diagnosed her condition...
...promise of Siberia is still largely promise, however. The vast land is far from tamed. Although sleek new Yak 40 minijets now dart from city to city and the Trans-Siberian Railroad provides a 6,000-mile spinal column from Moscow to the Pacific, riverboats and horse-drawn sleds still provide the lifelines from one wooden village to the next. In many places bears are more plentiful than people, and hunters frequently have to eject them from the food-stocked little huts that are established as survival stations...