Word: wheelchairs
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...week, Ernest Coe, 47, walks short distances down the corridors of Omaha Veterans Administration Hospital with the aid of a cane. Using his left hand, he works the automatic elevator. He can tell time and speak intelligibly in short phrases. At home on weekends, he gets out of his wheelchair to take his meals at the table and insists on helping his wife with the dishes. And, adds his wife, he whistles at pretty girls, as he always...
...Moon Walker was rejected by NASA, but it was not discarded by Aerojet. Rebuilt in a modified version, it has become the prototype of an eight-legged, walking wheelchair now being evaluated by the University of California at Los Angeles for the use of handicapped children. The boxy gadget resembles an ungainly bug; yet it is capable of sophisticated locomotion. It can travel forward or backward, turn in its own length, climb steps, a 30° slope and an 8-in. curb, cross rough fields, and literally get a toehold in sand or muddy ground that usually bogs down...
...away to sulk for a couple of years in Austria. In 1814, when the allies invaded France, he had no time to fight-he was too busy correcting proofs of his novel (Marie, ou les Peines de l'Amour). At 60, though syphilitic and confined to a wheelchair, he is said to have married a beautiful 16-year-old girl. In his entire life, he did only one thing of importance: he begot Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon III)-and was not really sure he had done even that...
Harper goes hunting instead, and his first stop is at an Alhambra-sized mansion ruled from a wheelchair by Lauren Bacall, the wife or widow of a kidnaped millionaire. Right at home here, lynx-eyed Lauren lets her voice burn like a laser into Scenarist William Goldman's polished-steel dialogue. "I only want to outlive him; I want to see him in his grave," she says. "People in love will say anything," answers Harper...
Conquering the Spectrum. For 14 years before his death, Matisse suffered from intestinal cancer. In his town house in Nice, he painted from his bed or wheelchair, surrounded by women-his beautiful secretary, two models, a nurse, cook and maid. Even though an invalid, he still drew in masterly style using a 10-ft. bamboo pole with a crayon on its tip. With this and a pair of scissors, he created his last great masterpiece, the Chapel of the Rosary at Vence. With cut-out colored paper he designed stained glass, tile stations of the Cross, even abstract chasubles...