Word: wheelchairs
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Bribing, threatening, tremendously assured, he stands as a universal bloodsucker; there is no forgiveness in him. Richard Simons, (who is a psychiatrist and I'm told something of a professional actor) plays Hummel superbly; a folksy gaffer at the start, his rises from his wheelchair to become an avenging angel who punishes men mercilessly for being human...
Pulling himself up out of his wheelchair and hobbling down the hospital corridor on crutches, Mario Wallenda, 22, whose legs were paralyzed in a 35-ft. fall from the high wire at the Shrine Circus in Detroit eight months ago, announced that he would leave for Sarasota, Fla., to join his father, the head of the famous Flying Wallendas troupe. Two other members of the troupe were killed in the accident, but Mario has kept his nerve. "I am a circus man," he said, "and I want to get back into it even if I have to ride the high...
...Lemmon clicks his eyes open and shut at the speed of a navy signal light. In a berserk finale, Novak trades punches with a lady nurse the size of a Japanese Sumo wrestler, and Lemmon goes on a piston-legged, cliffside pursuit of an old lady's runaway wheelchair, with the old lady in it, while a brass band spiritedly renders I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major-General...
...rescuers hacksawed him, battered and bloody, out of the unrecognizable wreckage of a pale green Lotus at England's Goodwood International Grand Prix, Auto Racer Stirling Moss, 32, was talking about getting back behind the wheel. In pajamas and striped dressing gown, the durable daredevil sat in a wheelchair at London's Atkinson Morley's Hospital, joshing the "head-shrinkers" who were putting him through tests, flirting with nurses and telling friends, "I'll be teaching you the twist soon." Doctors no longer feared paralysis from brain damage, but they said it would be four...
...scenes of horror spread. In Oran, a legless Moslem veteran was pulled from his wheelchair and murdered, while near the city's imposing Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, European teen-agers gleefully urinated on the body of another slain Moslem. Near Algiers, a French jeweler was "executed" as a traitor by the S.A.O. because he planned "to flee the country when it was in danger." At industrial Bone, where 1,500 years ago St. Augustine preached the City of God, a bomb destroyed a Moslem tenement, killing ten women and children, and Europeans drove off rescuers with rocks and pistol...