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...finally tremor decreased. Inability to speak, poor articulation, excessive sweating, weeping and urinary disorders were "strikingly improved," as were mental attitudes. Some patients who had been apathetic and vague showed an "awakening intellect" with better memory and alertness. Several who had not been able to get out of a wheelchair unaided or to walk without fall ing can now do both...
This week, at the age of 82, Mies saw his dream come true, although from a distance. In West Berlin, the $6,250,000 new National Gallery, which he designed (and for which he laid the cornerstone in 1965), officially opened to the public. Ailing and confined to a wheelchair, Mies had to remain in Chicago, where he now travels from his cooperative apartment to his office only once or twice a month to examine the new models for the many Mies-designed buildings now under way.*Still, those who saw the museum in Berlin agreed that it may well...
...make their film, and act out the admen's fantasies. Perhaps they will alight in an ancient West German castle, which was the setting for a recent Volkswagen commercial. Maybe the cameraman will strap himself to the back of a speeding motorcycle or scoot around in an electric wheelchair to achieve new whirling, eye-catching effects...
...week's end, Ted and Rose Kennedy taped a five-minute television message of thanks to the nation for its condolences. As Patriarch Joseph Kennedy sat speechless beside them in a wheelchair on the lawn of the Hyannisport compound, his youngest and last surviving son said: "It has been the people themselves, with outstretched hands of sympathy and strength, that have most touched the hearts of the members of our family. It is the ones who could give the least who have given the most...
...opening sequence leaves the audience in no doubt that Petulia is soing to be pretty tricky stuff. A woman with her neck in a brace is being pushed in a wheelchair through a hospital basement. Sudden flash of rock singer in psychedelic lights. Now they're wheeling her into an elevator filled with other damaged patients. Out of the elevator they go . . . why, it's a big party, a charity dance, the sign says, to benefit some highway safety campaign. George C. Scott, looking annoyed, is leaving. Julie Christie, looking lovely, is trying to get Scott...