Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although confined to a wheelchair, with failing eyesight and hearing, J. Fred Boyd has no notion of quitting as chairman of Vermilion Bay Land, a Louisiana oil-and-gas company he helped start 39 years ago. He gets monthly reports on company affairs, and attended all three of the company's board meetings last year. Last week in Detroit, he attended his 50th consecutive annual meeting, where he was elected to his 13th term as chairman. The only thing unusual about all this is that he is 99 years...
...Members of Access to a Better Learning Environment (ABLE), a campus group dedicated to improving conditions for disabled students, last year criticized the University's support services, claiming they are both mismanaged and insufficient ABLE called for increased access to undergraduate Houses (only two, Currier and Quincy, are fully wheelchair accessible), increased centralization of support services for disabled students and a full-time ombudsman for disabled concerns...
...School student charged that the University had overlooked a federal law requiring that newly-refurbished facilities be made accessible to the handicapped. The University altered its plans to include 30 permanent seats and 65 temporary seats for the disabled, as well as reserved parking spaces and a wheelchair ramp. Contractors started work in March on the alterations, which will cost about...
...Veterans Administration hospital in Miami, a patient in a wheelchair watches Pepper greeting the bedridden and says: "I'm a Republican. But I always vote for Senator Pepper. He doesn't care if you're an old Republican or an old Democrat. Just...
HOSPITALIZED. George Corley Wallace, 63, elected in 1982 to a fourth term as Alabama Governor despite being in a wheelchair since a 1972 assassination attempt; for pain in his lower abdomen and related depression, which his physician says is also caused by his problems as Governor; in Birmingham. It is his third trip to the hospital since his January inauguration, but a spokesman says that Wallace "is still very much in charge...