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...most of those in Humanities 9b, "Oral and Popular Literature," it made little difference when the class moved from Burr Hall to larger quarters in Sanders Theatre. For one student in the class, owever, the relocation created a serious problem. Stephanie Thomas '80 could maneuver her wheelchair into Burr, but not into Memorial Hall...
...audience with Somoza and Shelton took place aboard the Hughes executive jet at the airport. Hughes was removed from the hotel in a wheelchair, taken to the airport, and put aboard the plane before his visitors arrived...
There were a few other bad breaks last week. While gardening on her Beverly Hills estate, Actress Katharine Hepburn stepped into a hole and fractured her ankle in three places. After missing three performances of A Matter of Gravity in Los Angeles, Trouper Katie returned to work in a wheelchair. Heavyweight Boxer Jerry Quarry, whose pickup truck rolled when it should have weaved, fractured two vertebrae and will be wearing a steel corset for at least six weeks. Finally, Actor Gene Hackman lay in a London hospital, undergoing treatment for a bruised sciatic nerve in his back. Hackman took...
Unlike the men who chose to resist the fighting, Kovic can never be graced with amnesty. His exile is permanent; it is the physical isolation of his wheelchair. America's image was sullied in Vietnam; Kovic's ruined body is the crying proof of this. He had believed that there was honor in serving one's country, and there was. But the war taught him it was in vain. He recalls in the third person...
...Boswell, 68, innovative songstress of the Big Band era, whose recordings of such hits as Whispers in the Dark and They Can't Take That Away from Me sold more than 75 million copies; of cancer; in Manhattan. Boswell, stricken by polio as a child, sang from a wheelchair, but her long gowns were often artfully draped to create the illusion that she was standing up. She began her career as one of the three Boswell sisters. Continuing solo following her sisters' marriages, in 1936 she starred on radio, was featured on Broadway and appeared in several movie...