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Capital Confusion A muscular dystrophy victim named Renato Ruieroz made the 800-mile trip from Rio by wheelchair, and arrived in time. A relay of athletes ran a flaming torch from Salvador, 1.800 road miles away, as 100,000 Brazilians converged last week to hear President Juscelino Kubi-tschek proclaim: "I declare inaugurated under the protection of God the city of Brasilia." President Dwight Eisenhower, like dozens of other heads of state, cabled his congratulations "on the splendid pioneering spirit of Brazil...
Back in 1831, William Matthew Prior of Bath, Me. offered bargains: "Persons wishing for a flat picture can have a likeness without shade or shadow at one quarter price." Joseph Whiting Stock of Springfield, Mass, spent most of his 40 years in a wheelchair, but managed to turn out more than 900 portraits by the time he died...
...among those who had to revalidate their degrees to vote, a process that brought Oxford an unexpected windfall of $6,000 in fees. One train brought down Aviation Minister Duncan Sandys from London. Old Laborite Lord Beveridge, 81, tottered in just in time. One M.A. came in a wheelchair, another in an ambulance. By week's end, Oxford had a new chancellor: Mauricius Haraldus Macmillan...
Died. David M. Hall. 41, Freshman Congressman from North Carolina's Twelfth District, who pursued his career in spite of being confined to a wheelchair from the age of 15 because of osteomyelitis, undergoing surgery 200 times, finally developing cancer; in Sylva...
Forms in motion demonstrate the depths of space, and dramatize it in myriad ways. For example, a galloping horse imparts one kind of life to the loop of a mile-long track, and a man making the same circuit in a wheelchair gives it quite another. Even a static sculptured figure can dramatize space somewhat, as by seeming to point or to run. But can sculpture ever convey the sense of rapid, elaborate motion through space that almost every child of the steel age daily experiences? "Yes," says Norbert Kricke of Duesseldorf, and his does...