Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after a bruising battle with Boston's two-term mayor, John Collins, 47, an icy pragmatist whose political strength is based largely in the city, where he has mounted a brilliant if bloodless attack on urban renewal problems. Collins, a polio victim who is usually confined to a wheelchair, relied extensively on well-delivered television oratory and made an attempt to attract white-backlash votes by pointedly rejecting "civil disobedience as a means of attaining democratic objectives." Chub Peabody tirelessly stumped the state, chopping away at Collins' "public-be-damned" redevelopment program and recounting his own liberal record...
...acre estate in Allamuchy, N.J., in September 1944, six months after the death of her husband. Detouring on a trip from Washington to Hyde Park, F.D.R.'s private train pulled into Allamuchy around 2:30 a.m. At mid-morning he was lifted off in his wheelchair, visited with Mrs. Rutherfurd until 5:30 p.m. State Trooper Joseph J. Skelly, now 55, recalled that F.D.R., then campaigning for his fourth term, "looked very drawn...
...week, Ernest Coe, 47, walks short distances down the corridors of Omaha Veterans Administration Hospital with the aid of a cane. Using his left hand, he works the automatic elevator. He can tell time and speak intelligibly in short phrases. At home on weekends, he gets out of his wheelchair to take his meals at the table and insists on helping his wife with the dishes. And, adds his wife, he whistles at pretty girls, as he always...
...Moon Walker was rejected by NASA, but it was not discarded by Aerojet. Rebuilt in a modified version, it has become the prototype of an eight-legged, walking wheelchair now being evaluated by the University of California at Los Angeles for the use of handicapped children. The boxy gadget resembles an ungainly bug; yet it is capable of sophisticated locomotion. It can travel forward or backward, turn in its own length, climb steps, a 30° slope and an 8-in. curb, cross rough fields, and literally get a toehold in sand or muddy ground that usually bogs down...
...away to sulk for a couple of years in Austria. In 1814, when the allies invaded France, he had no time to fight-he was too busy correcting proofs of his novel (Marie, ou les Peines de l'Amour). At 60, though syphilitic and confined to a wheelchair, he is said to have married a beautiful 16-year-old girl. In his entire life, he did only one thing of importance: he begot Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III)-and was not really sure he had done even that...