Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Olentangy, the Kokosing, the Chagrin and Racoon Creek, swelled them until they overflowed to flood scores of cities and towns, batter buildings with massive hunks of ice. Ohio's Governor Mike Di Salle and Pennsylvania's David Lawrence declared emergencies. In Columbus Mrs. Betty Montgomery, 59, a wheelchair-bound invalid, sat stolidly at her window, watched the Scioto River rising up her wall. When flood water reached the first floor, she tied a string to the trigger of a .22 cal. rifle, aimed it at her head and pulled the string. In south Buffalo an ice dam backed...
...nearly invisible as the museum's own structure. Donor Cullinan said happily: "The new wing is like a great stage which faces the city. Another might have built a nice, safe building. I wanted something that would be contemporary for generations to come." Touring the building in a wheelchair to spare an ailing hip, Mies agrees: "Buildings last so much longer than any function, and you must design with that in mind. Good design does not grow...
Prosperity. "Last winter the Administration gave the private citizen and private enterprise a helping hand-not a federal wheelchair. Now the recession is rapidly running out. Personal income is at an alltime high. Last month unemployment dropped by 600,000. Gross farm income, per capita farm income, land values, farm ownership are up or at record highs. We should be able to keep the consumer price level stable over the next year-and isn't that great news for every family in America...
Died. Eugene Millikin, 67, longtime (1941-56) Republican Senator from Colorado, who retired because of rheumatoid arthritis that confined him to a wheelchair; of pneumonia; in Denver. Lawyer Millikin, who turned to politics from a successful career in the oil business, was a Taft-supporting conservative, a tariff protectionist, a tax expert, and the portrait of a Senator in his look and bearing. His wit was cutting; in a debate he once remarked: "If the distinguished Senator will allow me, I will try to extricate him from his thoughts...
Last week the three-man court and six-man jury in Bayreuth found Sommer guilty of murder, dealt to the master of punishment the maximum punishment permitted under West German law: life imprisonment. To the end Sommer was impassive. But when one German, looking at the cripple in the wheelchair, said, "You have already paid for your bestialities," Sommer wept gratefully in pity-for himself...