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...central character is Frankenstein Roosevelt, a power-mad, aristocratic cripple whose props are a wheelchair, a cigarette holder and a pile of postage stamps. Among the characters are his five children, members of a dynasty who will some day run the country (or so everybody assumes), and an adviser named Popkins, who is usually dressed in a bathrobe and is really a Russian in disguise. The plot revolves around Frankenstein's attempts to sell the country out piecemeal to the Communists. The play ends happily when That Man dies of what looks like a stroke (actually, the deed...
...years ago, he arrived in court for a preliminary hearing seated in a wheelchair, his body swaddled in blankets, a bandana hiding his face. He has feigned insanity twice and once arrived on a stretcher. In the middle of his trial last January, he fired his lawyer, Frances Kahn, because she was a "prosecution spy" and took over his own defense. The detective who arrested him he called a "sadist." Assistant District Attorney Frank Rogers became the "persecutor." Judge Gellinoff was an "animal." Once, while cross-examining a prosecution psychiatrist, Kayo posed an hour-long hypothetical question. "Now, Doctor...
...address to over 600 doctors, nurses, and other personnel, Miss Switzer did not directly discuss Ivy League admissions, as she did afterward, but she still sharply criticized the Ivies. After praising the University of Illinois (which has 138 wheelchair students) and other schools for their special facilities, she sighed, "I'm always impressed by the absence of Ivy League colleges in these special arrangements...
Lynn was a cheerful child from the beginning ("In my childhood I remember only things like sunny days"), though it wasn't always easy to see why. She developed acute anemia and was so weak that she went to the park in a wheelchair until she was six. She remembers Vanessa as "simply smashing," Corin as "incredibly brilliant," and her mother as "the mother of all the mothers...
Last week, back in Panama, Arias was helped into a convertible and driven with his wife through the streets of Panama City, in a sort of triumphal return marked by clusters of waving people along the way. With Dame Margot proudly pushing his wheelchair, he entered the National Assembly as it reconvened for 1967 and claimed the seat he had won more than two years ago. Six times in the course of the session, all 41 members, friend and enemy alike, stood and applauded Tito Arias for a victory far more impressive than any that has ever been...