Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have a handicapped preschooler who must be transported several days a week (90 miles a week) for therapy. We need a large car to transport her wheelchair and a carriage for our six-month...
...well enough to walk a few steps without crutches, Teddy confidently joined a pre-Christmas family sledding party in Virginia. Then he arrived at Palm Beach for a vacation with his family at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy. He rejected a waiting wheelchair at the airport and made his own way to the car. The next day, Teddy, wearing shorts, was seen tooling along a local bike path on an adult tricycle, crutches tucked in the rear basket. Said Grandmother Rose proudly: "The little fellow is getting along just fine...
...were not down in spirits. Counseled Wallace: "The fact that we're in this position doesn't preclude a useful and pleasurable life." Replied Chris, who manages to play baseball and even touch football and who since his accident has learned to ride a horse and do wheelchair tricks: "That's it in a nutshell. We can't stand up, but there are so many other things...
...coed, Robert Fish, 76, of Los Altos, Calif., wrote the Alumni Magazine to say that he was all for the controversial decision and Actress Shirley MacLaine was the sort of woman he hoped would enroll. Moreover, he added jokingly, he'd be honored if Shirley would guide his wheelchair at his 55th reunion. When Fish turned up at Hanover, N.H., with the class of '18, who should be getting an honorary doctorate but Shirley MacLaine. Fish observed after she had wheeled him around: "A gallant lady...
Miler John Quirk is sick, but, McCurdy said, will run "if I have to get him to New Haven in a wheelchair...