Word: wheelchairs
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FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Sixteen descendants of F.D.R. say their jaunty forebear should be depicted in a wheelchair...
After a Friday session that was both congenial and contentious, the two Presidents emerged with their good humor intact. At the wrap-up news conference, Clinton perched in his wheelchair next to Yeltsin, watching warily to see how the Russian would spin the summit. Yeltsin chose to be unsmiling but soothing. He said he still thought expanding NATO "is a mistake, and a serious one at that." Even so, he was sure he and "Bill," as he chummily called Clinton, would be able to resolve all the outstanding issues. He announced that the two sides would negotiate an agreement that...
...kill my father?" Ray's answer was brief: "No, I didn't." In an encounter broadcast live by CNN, King chatted for 17 minutes with Ray, who is currently serving a 99-year sentence for the shooting death of the civil rights leader. Seated in a wheelchair, Ray responded to King's comments in a reedy voice, rambling nearly incoherently at times. King told Ray that his family believes in the imprisoned man's innocence. Ray, who recanted an earlier plea of guilty, has never been tried for the 1968 assassination...
Christopher Reeve's days as a leading man are far from over. The actor, who recently finished the HBO film In the Gloaming, his directorial debut, has been offered the role of the wheelchair-bound nosy neighbor in a remake of the 1954 thriller Rear Window. "It's going to be a real showcase of what people in [Reeve's] condition can do," says exec producer Robert Gaulin. "Chris is extremely excited about it." Reeve's publicist says the actor is merely considering...
F.D.R. MEMORIAL COMMISSION Disabled protesters once again denounce monument depicting the President sans wheelchair...