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...year-old Veterans Hospital, a Spanish-style stucco complex, that was most devastated. Three of the buildings were either demolished or toppled, burying patients-many of them elderly men-in the rubble. Although confined to a wheelchair with a back injury, Bob Dutton said he instantly "learned to walk" as his third-floor room began to sway. "I jumped for the door, and when I reached the hall and turned to look back, there was nothing there -just wide-open space." There were at least 44 dead. But the round-the-clock work of emergency crews paid off, as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Terror in Los Angeles | 2/22/1971 | See Source »

...Jacqueline, 24, have been a steady twosome, and during his recent hospitalization (for a hemorrhoid operation), "it was Lady Jackie who visited him even more often than Margaret." Last week, as the rumors flew, sometime Fashion Model Jacqueline left England for Switzerland, sometime Fashion Photographer Tony worked in a wheelchair at Kensington Palace, and Princess Margaret and the two children visited Queen Elizabeth at Sandringham. Jacqueline's mother, Lady Reading, denying all, called the reports "absolutely ridiculous," but from Princess Margaret's official spokesman, Major John Griffin, it was: "As far as I know, there is no romance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 18, 1971 | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

...associate later called a "real tearjerker" film of a day in the new life of Keith Bush. It showed him being dressed, fed, bathed, shaved, given therapy, and finally being shifted in his bed during the night to avoid bedsores. Bush himself appeared in court slumped in a wheelchair. To show he was tragically alert though helpless, he tried but failed to shake Boccardo's hand when asked. The jury gave him everything that was requested: $3,000,000 for himself, half of which is for the projected cost of care for the 40 years he is expected...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Troika of Torts | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

Later, a young woman brings her little boy to see Orr. The kid, smiling and blonde, has braces on both legs and sits in a wheelchair. Orr spots him and jumps down from the platform. As they talk, a press agent hands Orr a copy of his book, which he autographs and gives to the kid. All this time the mother has been searching for her Coop card, which she at last finds and offers as payment for the book. She looks uncomfortable, rather than grateful, when Orr tells her the book is a gift...

Author: By Judith Freedman, | Title: 'May I Kiss You, Bobby?' | 10/31/1970 | See Source »

...virtual vegetable in his own garden. His incapacity is pitifully childlike: to entice him to drink his daily milkshake, a servant must first bare her breast. But his mind still functions with chaotic clarity as he fantasizes the possible consequences of his helplessness. He sees himself in his wheelchair careening wildly across the quiet greensward and into the swimming pool; mailed lancers from the picture that covers his office wall safe appear before him and try to ride him down. More harrowing is Antonio's grasp of his family's greed. Prowling around him like jackals sniffing carrion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Garlic and Sapphires | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

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