Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kari Harrington is seven years old and a victim of severe cerebral palsy. Thus she lacks the muscular coordination necessary for controlled movement and speech, and is virtually restricted to a wheelchair. Like many other victims of the disease, she will never be able to move around normally or speak well enough to be understood. Now an experimental training program that uses printed symbols to convey meaning has begun to draw her out of her isolated world...
...Ahead. Very probably Wallace himself does not know what he will do. If he recuperates sufficiently to return to action, even from a wheelchair, he has other options. Most dramatically he could bolt from the party, run in the general election as an independent candidate, and try to throw the election into the House, where he might hope to strike a bargain in exchange for his support. He would cut into the Democrats' blue-collar strength in the North, yet he would also cost Richard Nixon crucial electoral votes in the South. Harry Dent claims that the Republicans would...
...Cornelia Wallace courageously faced television cameras shortly after the shooting of her husband. She proclaimed his determination to recover: "He didn't earn the title of the 'Fighting Little Judge' for nothing." She had passed the word that the Governor would continue to campaign "in a wheelchair if necessary," and that in the meantime she was willing to carry on for him on the campaign trail. Those who know Cornelia Wallace well are confident that her special blend of charm and toughness would make her a highly effective substitute...
...year-old writer-director Dick Bartlett, Ruby is a lady busdriver, plump, grey, going on fifty--a perfect target for cheap humor. She does her route mornings and afternoons and has the use of the bus for the rest of the day. Her husband, Clifford, lives in a wheelchair and spends his time making fudge on the kitchen stove. He travels through the town on his wheelchair stopping at every house like a mailman, but the woman who brings him a glass of water still has some fudge left over from last week...
...John F. Kennedy Center for the fourth annual Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards lunch -and the Kennedys dominated them all. Teddy, with his sisters Eunice Shriver and Jean Smith, were magnets to the old Kennedy hands, and Ethel, who had broken her leg while skiing, joked in a wheelchair. Kathleen (R.F.K.'s eldest) was the quintessential Radcliffe girl in granny glasses and flowing hair. Eldest son Joe-being nudged more and more into the family spotlight-gracefully presented bronze busts of his father to the winners. But it was the indomitable 81-year-old Rose who out-Kennedyed them...