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Arcane Alchemy. Nothing is forced in her performance. Strain only shows offstage, when she takes long rests, sits in her dressing room in a wheelchair to ease the pain of a crushed disk in her back, and dismisses visitors with the sigh, "I must do my breathing now." Since pneumonia damaged her lungs in 1961, she has had to inflate them several times a day with a pressurized oxygen tank that accompanies her everywhere (she calls it "Charlie...
Boudreaux wanted to do metal work, but he could not reach a workbench from a wheelchair, and anyhow, he could not sit on the ulcer at the base of his spine. He had heard about stand-up beds and tilt-tables-so why not convert a wheelchair into something similar? Therapist Robert E. Craig and Dr. Hodge M. Eagleson Jr. worked with Boudreaux in perfecting a sort of surfboard-wheelchair combination...
...Albert Sabin, 60, developer of the oral polio vaccine; and Mrs. Jane Blach Warner, attractive Cincinnati divorcee; both for the second time (his first wife died of a drug overdose last year); in a Reform Jewish ceremony at Cincinnati's Holmes Hospital, where the bridegroom, confined to a wheelchair, was recovering from bites inflicted by his pet dachshund...
...rich but unscrupulous wheelchair-bound tycoon buy the U.S. presidency for his personable Congressman son? Well, this breathless book says that he can - if he has the assistance of a ruthless second son, and is prepared to pay a couple of conniving political geniuses $1,000,000 a year to give his charming offspring a doozied-up image as a vigorous battler for human rights...
...Linda's big Power play. During the past month, she has waged a selling campaign that ought to win an Oscar for Haughty Hokum and High Hucksterism. "Before Romina is 21," declares Linda, "she'll be making more money than Elizabeth Taylor. Liz will need a wheelchair by that time, the way she's carrying...