Word: wheelchairs
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President Eisenhower's medical chart continued to show an upward curve. For the first time, he sat up in a wheelchair and was pushed around the sun-drenched porch outside his room at Denver's Fitzsimons Hospital. His diet became more varied.* He started two paintings. He got back to a part-time, Monday-Wednesday-Friday work week. And once more a stream of officials and friends, dammed up for three weeks, began to pour into Denver and up to the President's bedside...
...hospital, Ike stepped from his car, sat in a waiting wheelchair, and was taken immediately to the two-room presidential suite on the eighth floor of the hospital's tower. On the way up he politely inquired after the health of the elevator operator, Charles Adams. Ike went right to bed, and was placed under an oxygen tent. The green-and-cream-colored suite is reserved for very important patients and furnished in the style of a hotel room, with upholstered chairs, a carpet on the floor, a desk and several lamps...
...drop their votes in a black-lacquered box. All the conservative parties had agreed to support Hatoyama. and his only opponent was Mosaburo Suzuki, onetime ricksha boy who has become leader of the Diet's left-wing Socialists. The vote for Ichiro Hatoyama: 254-160. Climbing into his wheelchair, Hatoyama rolled around the chamber on a triumphal tour, brandishing a glass of beer (strictly a photographer's prop, since Hatoyama, on doctor's orders, takes nothing alcoholic...
...running away with her lover. Then she forces the girl to confront her lover's neurotic wife and to grasp that beyond her own Catholic problem of sin, her lover is still bound by strong conjugal ties. When the girl turns imploringly to her great-uncle in his wheelchair, he tries-but in vain-to offer something more than mere platitudes and catchwords of faith; and the suffering girl commits suicide...
Priceless Reward. Songo's carvings and paintings, sold to tourists who came to visit the school, eventually earned $100 -enough. Sam thought, to buy a wheelchair. Paterson did not have the heart to tell him that the chair, delivered in Africa, would cost more than $200; instead, he appealed to national-sweepstakes officials for the rest of the money. Now Sam cheerfully rolls himself around his work as he carves...