Word: wheelchairs
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...blizzard swept over the peak of Vermont's Mount Mansfield one day last week, a woman in a wheelchair pulled the veil from a two-ton marble sculpture fashioned like a huge dime. With the dedication of the mountaintop sculpture, a monument to the victims of the U.S.'s first polio epidemic,* the 1956 March of Dimes opened. There was the usual fanfare-the sort that has made Americans contribute more than three billion dimes since the drive began in 1938. But the 1956 kickoff was different: for the first time, the year was beginning with the certain...
...Rutland County, Vt. in 1894, when more than 100 children were stricken. The woman in the wheelchair was 64-year-old Miss Sarah Jones, the only victim of the epidemic now alive...
...with two trucks on the brow of a New York Central overpass. John Fell Stevenson '58, of Leverett House and Libertyville, III., driver of the car, suffered severe face cuts and a broken right kneecap. Doctors said yesterday at Chicago's Passavant Hospital, where Stevenson is confined in a wheelchair, that his progress was "fine." His return to Cambridge is as yet indefinite...
...familiar faces crossed the scene. Crowds heard again from Edouard Daladier, France's agent at Munich, and Paul Reynaud, Premier when France fell. Aged (83) but intrepid Edouard Herriot got from meeting to meeting in his wheelchair. Bodyguards propped ailing Communist Chief Maurice Thorez before microphones to breathe a few words on behalf of Red candidates...
...that they so desperately needed. A group of Texas Tech students who were members of Alpha Phi Omega, the national service fraternity of former Boy Scouts, agreed to take over the instruction of a group of handicapped youngsters. Lucian Thomas, a local jeweler who had been confined to a wheelchair for 16 years, sponsored the troop. The A.P.O. members scheduled two meetings a week, one for physically handicapped youngsters and one for the mentally retarded...