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Eighty-two years ago, when she was three, Alice Mason crossed the plains from Iowa to Kansas in a covered wagon. Last month she flew to Washington in a jet and, sitting in a wheelchair, made her way to the White House Rose Garden. There she gave Presidential Aide Theodore Marrs a 27-in. by 36-in. tapestry depicting a proud American eagle. Mrs. Mason and eleven other residents of a Topeka nursing home had spent six weeks weaving the wall hanging. The work was their way of celebrating the Bicentennial, and they thought the President should have...
...voted overwhelmingly for Carter or Jackson. In addition, Wallace could not persuade many voters that he was physically fit; surveys showed that two out of five Democrats were partly deterred from voting for him because they questioned his health. Complained Wallace: "If I hadn't been in a wheelchair, I would have...
...once called it. There was space for 1,250 people in the meeting room of the Highpoint Motor Inn, but 2,500 turned up, so the feisty Alabama Governor simply went through his routine twice-an impressive performance for a man of 56 who is confined to a wheelchair, totally paralyzed from the waist down and partly deaf. It was vintage Wallace, and the crowd loved...
...could work regularly on this scale again. In March 1960 he was nearly killed in an elevator accident. His back and left leg were broken, and the doctors said that he would never walk, let alone work, again. Di Suvero spent a year in a hospital, another in a wheelchair and three more on crutches; by an effort of will he recovered...
...given up easily. A toughened survivor of polio and a near drowning in childhood, plus an almost fatal riding accident and a weakened heart while on the court, he had been partly paralyzed by a stroke last New Year's Eve and was confined to a wheelchair. The lifelong liberal had hung on stubbornly. As Douglas told a friend only a few weeks ago: "I won't resign while there's a breath in my body -until we get a Democratic President...