Word: wheelchairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Congress, five-star generals cannot retire, and thus Bradley served 69 years on active duty-longer than any other soldier in U.S. history. Although largely confined to a wheelchair by arthritis in recent years, he served as grand marshal of Ronald Reagan's Inauguration parade last January. Bradley flew to Manhattan last week to attend a dinner in his honor given by the New York chapter of the Association of the United States Army. Shortly after the ceremonies were completed, the G.I.'s general died, of cardiac arrest...
...toward saving fuel, the UMTA sent them back to the drawing board with an offer to pay $3 per bus for each pound they could remove from the vehicle's weight. In 1977 GM devised the RTS ill, a flashy bus with clean lines and an optional 1 wheelchair lift. Grumman, the company that built o the lunar landing module, bought Flxible and produced a low-slung, 26,000-lb., 48-seat bus, com-Splete with a kneeling mechanism for the handicapped and an electric sign that beamed HAVE A GOOD DAY. Grumman's Flxible 870 with...
...whole fiasco is making the Federal Government, which required cities to buy American vehicles to qualify for subsidies, get out of the bus business. Its requirement for wheelchair capabilities, for instance, added to the weight of the new buses and lowered their fuel efficiency. "It was like trying to build a camel by regulation," says a transportation lobbyist. Many cities are renovating GM's 1959-model "new look" bus, long the mainstay of public transportation. Notes a Chicago transit manager: "They're reliable and pretty much all the bugs were out of them." Other cities, including Atlanta, Seattle...
...budget fun with The Final Conflict--hopefully, the last of the Omen pictures. The next preview heralds the return of The Texas Chain Saw Massacres, a picture ahead of its time. This trailer's teaser scene shows a raging lunatic perfecting his gasoline talents on a man in a wheelchair--straight down the middle. But that film's creator has a new surprise for us--Funhouse. Opening this week, Funhouse features a deformed killer who "lives off the flesh of young innocents." Last but not least is a young woman turning into a green, pulsating, nine-foot-tall wolf...
...also a fair amount of drama behind him, the sort that did not make it to the big screen. Three winters ago, Diamond collapsed onstage during a concert. Doctors diagnosed a tumor on the spinal cord, and Neil endured a twelve-hour operation and three months in a wheelchair, uncertain whether he would ever walk again...