Word: wheelchairs
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Responding from the wheelchair that he has been using since breaking his hip last November, Begin countered that a Palestinian state on the West Bank would imperil Israel's existence. "This is our country, this is our land," he later added. "Here our civilization was born." But he challenged Mitterrand to launch a peace initiative of his own and to work for a nonaggression pact that would include all the countries of the Mediterranean basin...
...public in 1976 when New York's Museum of Modern Art held a design competition for a highly maneuverable taxi that people could get in and out of easily. Giugiaro submitted a plan for a compact, five-passenger Alfa Romeo with sliding doors wide enough to admit a wheelchair. It cost less than the average American cab, and at the time everyone thought it was a great idea. It still is, but unfortunately, no one in the U.S. wants to manufacture...
Seconds after takeoff on his first try with a hang glider, a sudden gust of wind caused Craig Vetter to crash. He spent two months in a wheelchair, learning to hate what many disabled persons call the "chrome-plated torture rack." Now, one year later, Industrial Designer Vetter, 39, has put his own well-engineered, light, agile and elegant wheelchair design on the market. As yet custom made, Vetter's chair also comes in a sports model for wheelchair tennis, basketball or marathons...
...Vetter has given the wheelchair a contemporary look, Thomas E. Stephenson, 49, has revolutionized it. He has designed a chair that runs on belts like a tank, rather than the usual bicycle wheels. In contrast to wheels, which can be stopped by an obstruction like a garden hose, Stephenson's traction belts can negotiate a step, a curb or a grade. The design is still on the drawing boards...
...this is especially worrisome to the old, to people like Laurette Dunthy, 73, of San Francisco. Partly paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair, she was at first reluctant to try a day care center at all. Soon she found she loved it, made close friends and even won an award for poetry. "It's like having a family all over again," she says. But her daughter Grace Ann Gaskill adds: "All along there has been this uncertainty. Every year they didn't know if they were going to be funded for the next...