Word: wheelchairs
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...tiny (1/12 h.p.) electric motor with high gear ratio and operated from a master control in the patient's hand. By pressing a button, the invalid can raise himself gently and silently off the bed, move to left or right, or lower himself into a bedside wheelchair. The machine has safety features so that the patient will not be dropped in the event of short circuits. Worst consequence: patient could be left suspended if power failed altogether, but Inventor Miller says that even then the patient would still be reasonably comfortable. When something goes wrong, a red light flashes...
Honored at Jamestown, Tenn. (pop. 2,115) by his old 82nd Division (long since an airborne outfit), old (69), ailing Sergeant Alvin York whispered his thanks for a new auto equipped to carry his wheelchair (he was crippled by a stroke in 1954). Then, exhausted, Medal-of-Honorman York beckoned to friends and was wheeled from the speaker's platform while the oratory rumbled on, returned by ambulance to his home in nearby Pall Mall...
Seated in his wheelchair, his brush bound to his hand between two fingers, the painter worked intently on his canvas, his grey-green eyes squinting at the luxuriant landscape. "Merde," he murmured, "but it's beautiful!" He was Auguste Renoir, already in his late 70s and crippled by rheumatism, but lively in his opinions (shown a Picasso painting, he shouted: "Take that filth away!") and unabashedly glorying in his work. Showing a nude he had just completed, he confessed that his model was the baker's wife, exclaimed: "She had a bottom-oh, forgive...
...Pilgrim) whose tenth novel, The Horse's Mouth, written when he was 54, first brought him broad recognition as a major writer, who worked to the end despite a rare, fatal nerve disease which struck (1954) and progressively paralyzed him; in Oxford, England. Propped up in his wheelchair or bed, with his arm supported by a rope, his pen tied to his hand, he faced death calmly, worked until his limbs were useless, then dictated until his power of speech was gone...
During the summer of 1955 Von Neumann learned that he had cancer. As the disease progressed, he still kept at work, attended AEC meetings in a wheelchair as long as he was able. The last months of his life he spent in Walter Reed Army Hospital. There last week, at 53, he died...