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...business failure came during the most discouraging period in Fuller's life. It included poverty and the death of Alexandra, his three-year-old daughter, who died of spinal meningitis and polio. The child's death, said the grieving father, was "design-preventable." Always accenting the positive, he even turned from thoughts of suicide at 32 on the assumption that he was the custodian of one of the universe's vital resources...
Ceiling Watcher. Color and its vibrations have always been central to Francis' work. Son of a California mathematics professor, his career as a painter began in 1943 when, age 20, he was bedridden from a spinal injury sustained when his Air Force fighter crashed. The hospital was on the coast of California, and Francis spent weeks watching the shift and bloom of light on the Pacific, and its reflections on the ceiling-projected, as it were, on a blank canvas. Here Francis discovered a motif to which he would constantly return: the specific qualities and the substantiality of light...
...agonizing, fiery pain in Coats' leg, surgeons are thinking of a radically new procedure: implanting a device with electrodes in the spinal cord so that when the pain heats up Coats can press a button and switch it off. He may have to use such a device all his life. Was it worth it? Would he do it again? "I don't feel the same as I did in 1967, because of what's come out?the Pentagon papers, and the reasons for the U.S. going in originally. I can't see why we kept on spilling American blood...
Died. Sir Francis Chichester, 70, adventurous yachtsman whose 1966-67 solo voyage round the world in the ketch Gipsy Moth IV won him international fame; of anemia caused by a malignant spinal tumor; in Plymouth, England. Though he became the archetype of the master seaman, Chichester set the world's record for the longest solo flight in a seaplane in 1931. He bought his first yacht in 1953 and in 1960 won the first transatlantic solo yacht race. After his historic trip round the world, the first made with just one landfall, Chichester was given a hero...
...handled with typical military precision. The ambulance driver dispatched to the lake radioed the nearby Carbondale hospital that Barr's neck appeared broken. The "trauma coordinator" there arranged to airlift Barr 300 miles to Chicago's Wesley Memorial Hospital, which has a unit that specializes in spinal injuries. He knew that Southern Illinois University had an ambulance plane and asked them to have it ready in Carbondale, where Barr was heading by ambulance. By the time Barr reached the airfield, a doctor was on hand to confirm the break, and a nurse was standing by to accompany...