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...five months in a Houston hospital he is now convalescing at his modest Las Vegas home. Louis, who had been an official greeter at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas before his operation, insists he is "impatient to return to work." For now, the Brown Bomber is consigned to a wheelchair and two rounds of physical therapy each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 20, 1978 | 3/20/1978 | See Source »

...cripple is potentially mawkish stuff, Ashby usually does not allow his story to become overly sentimental. He does not view the couple's relationship as a panacea for all their emotional problems, and he refuses to shy away from harsh detail. When Luke finally leaves his wheelchair to join Sally in bed, the hero's handicaps bring the ensuing sex scene an added poignance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Dark at the End off the Tunnel | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...injury list grows on, and with each toll of the death bell it gets to the point where if you want to watch Harvard hockey in action you have to pull up a rinkside wheelchair at Stillman Infirmary...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Another Bad Break For Hockey Team; Heel Sidelines Jack Hughes for Month | 1/12/1978 | See Source »

...figure that it could cost thousands of dollars to do the necessary renovation in the local library, which receives only $2,000 in federal funds each year. The library was built for $16,000 ten years ago, and none of Rudd's 429 citizens is confined to a wheelchair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Helping the Handicapped | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

...enterprises have been guilty of compliance overkill. A California firm spent $40,000 lowering all its drinking fountains when the installation of paper-cup dispensers, at a cost of $1.60 for each fountain, would probably have brought the building into compliance. The University of Texas put an elevator for wheelchairs into the student union-at a cost of $17,000-then discovered that the elevator was too small for a passenger in a wheelchair plus an attendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Helping the Handicapped | 12/5/1977 | See Source »

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