Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Speaking from her wheelchair, Pat Hemenway, 46, quietly described to Washington State legislators what had happened to her. While she was walking near the University of Washington campus one day in 1972, two young muggers accosted her. For no apparent reason, one suddenly shot her in the neck, grabbed her purse and left her bleeding-and permanently paralyzed. Obviously moved by her story, the lawmakers voted to pass a new kind of law that would provide state funds to ease the plight of Mrs. Hemenway and hundreds of others like...
...svelte Septuagenarian Marlene Dietrich, the show must go on, if not the preshow party. Shoving aside a waiting wheelchair at London's Heathrow Airport, the statuesque star hobbled into England last week, still feeling the effects of a leg injury suffered earlier this year. Princess Margaret ordered up a royal reception at Grosvenor House, where Dietrich was scheduled to make her first West End cabaret appearance in almost 20 years. Despite a guest list that included Director Franco Zeffirelli and Actor Christopher Lee, the evening's main attraction canceled out by phone. "I haven...
...aside hurt pride to concentrate on profit by colluding to rig the market. All those dentists, airline pilots and what Erdman gleefully calls "greedy widows" who invested in silver futures never stood a chance. The odds of beating the professionals were about the same as a man in a wheelchair getting a football through the Miami Dolphins' defense...
...fall best. Otherwise you smash yourself badly." In fact, he has. In a London repertory performance of Scapino last year, he missed his Tarzan-like lunge for the rope and broke his heel. For the next few performances he played the show in a leg cast and a wheelchair. "Just like a joust," he recalls fondly...
...Alabama, Governor George Wallace, 54, easily defeated four rivals, including his wife Cornelia's uncle, former Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 65, to win the Democratic nomination for an unprecedented third four-year term. The paralysis that has confined Wallace to a wheelchair since the attempt on his life two years ago was apparently no political handicap: he got more than 65% of the vote, the biggest sweep in an Alabama primary since 1920. He carried 66 of the state's 67 counties and received surprisingly strong support from blacks, whom he seriously courted...