Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young man in the wheelchair began speaking softly, but then his voice turned bitter. His tone and words hushed the crowd at the city hall ceremony in Manhattan marking the beginning of Viet Nam Veterans Week. "You people ran a number on us," declared Robert Muller, 33, a former Marine lieutenant who lost the use of his legs in Viet Nam combat when a bullet shattered his spine. "Your guilt, your hang-ups., your uneasiness made it socially unacceptable to mention the fact that we were Viet Nam veterans." Pounding his knee with a clenched fist, he accused most Americans...
...record tenure in office. As Georgia's top election official, he was often at the volatile center of political disputes. When newly elected Governor Eugene Talmadge died in 1946 before taking office, Fortson kept pretenders to the throne at bay by hiding the state seal under his wheelchair cushion until the succession battle was resolved. In 1968 Fortson again demonstrated his determination by defying the wishes of Segregationist Governor Lester Maddox and lowering state flags to mark the death of Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King...
...MYSELF AN EYE was recorded in January 1978, not long after a nerve disease had ended Mingus's playing career by forcing him into a wheelchair for the rest of his life. It was recorded hastily by a 25-piece ensemble consisting largely of white studio musicians who have little or no previous association with Mingus. The album confirms Mingus's pervasive musical personality precisely because of these limitations. Lacking the leader's enormous presence on bass, as well as the discipline of the handpicked, carefully trained small workshops for which he is best known, Me Myself An Eye remains...
DIED. Marjorie Lawrence, 71, Australian-born soprano who resumed her career in a wheelchair after being stricken by infantile paralysis in 1941; of a heart attack; in Little Rock, Ark. Lawrence specialized in Wagnerian roles and after her illness made a triumphant comeback at the Metropolitan Opera in 1943 singing Venus in Tannhauser while seated on a divan. She detailed her struggles with illness in her 1949 autobiography, Interrupted Melody, and in subsequent years taught opera at several U.S. colleges...
...upright while the walker is pushed ahead. Then the arms support the body as the legs swing forward. It's not walking. And if the strength in the arms and upper body is not kept up through continued intense rehabilitation, then it's back to the wheelchair." Sadly, he adds, for most paraplegics who try such methods, that is exactly what happens...