Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Evac Chair. Egen Polymatic Corporation, manufacturer. David Egen, designer. A lightweight, easily stored wheelchair to help elderly or handicapped persons down high-rise fire-exit stairs in case of emergency. A 250-lb. invalid can easily be evacuated by one assistant...
...arms and legs, and his lungs were paralyzed as well. The doctors said that he would spend his life on his back, unable to perform the simplest tasks. But as his oldest brother, Gary, 27, recalls it, "Robbie never accepted .that he'd be in a wheelchair forever. And neither...
...jovial feelings were shattered as I stepped up on the curb in front of Out of Town News, "Square Deal! Free Square coupons!" said one of the masses that flocked like vultures around me. "Two for one drinks!" another pitched in. "Wheelchair basketball," said a third. I had reverted back--back to my old self and I swore, right there, that I would never return, to the other side of the leaflet...
Their gazes mix awe and deep familiarity and shyness. They are blue-collar people, or else small farmers who work these hills. Mostly they have rough, country faces and washed, flat, distantly Celtic eyes. People in wheelchairs are pushed up to his wheelchair, and George Wallace reaches out the gentlest communing hands to them, and spends long moments with each, consoling and almost, one thinks, healing. He has the nimbus of saint and martyr-or at any rate, of a celebrity who has passed through the fire and the greater world; he has come back to them from history, come...
...sift it by hand into capsules. When his grant money ran out, Van Woert could no longer obtain the unapproved substance; nor could Dobkin legally do so. Van Woert's patients had to make do with far less effective medications. For Dobkin, 29, that meant returning to her wheelchair. "When I'm on L-5HTP I'm very well controlled, I have fewer tremors, I'm stronger," she says. "Without the medication, it is harder to walk, I fatigue easily and can't take care of my baby...