Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Refusing to accept a life sentence to the wheelchair, Waldrep began investigating an experimental and disputed Soviet treatment being used at Leningrad's Polenov Neurosurgery Research Institute. Helped by the intervention of Texas Congressman Jim Wright, the House majority leader, and contributions of nearly $15,000 from a T.C.U. fund raiser and his home-town folks in Grand Prairie, Texas, Waldrep arrived in Leningrad last October. He was the second American sports figure among the nation's estimated 200,000 spine-injured patients to make that pilgrimage this year. (The other was Race-Car Driver Bob Hurt...
...guidelines apply to anyone with a physical disability, not only those people confined to a wheelchair. Warner said yesterday, "We will provide anyone with the education he deserves. That means supplying tape recorders to a blind student or the written text of a lecture to a deaf student...
...accomplish this task. Waldrop was paralyzed after a football injury at the University of Texas, and his doctors said there seemed to be nothing they could do. But a Leningrad hospital offered him special treatment, which was successful in allowing him, after four years of confinement to a wheelchair, to stand in a walker...
Most of the day he sits huddled in a wheelchair in his small, cluttered office at England's Cambridge University. At his side is a mechanical page turner that allows him to read without calling for assistance. Stephen Hawking has been confined to a wheelchair for eight years, the victim of a type of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a rare, wasting disease of the nervous system and muscles. He cannot raise his head without great effort. He speaks only in a slurred monotone comprehensible to just a few intimates. Yet, at age 36, in spite of his heart-rending handicaps...
Coming Home--This is a fairly decent film about a Vietnam veteran (Jon Voigt) who comes home, confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, and then falls in love with Jane Fonda, while her husband Bruce Stern has only just departed for Asia himself. The only drawbacks in this movie are that its points are not made very subtly, but rather clobber you over the head with theories on what that war was all about, in case you don't know already...