Word: wheelchairs
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...through muscle rehabilitation and physical therapy, Coleman successfully fought polio and stood on crutches at his graduation from the University of California at Los Angeles. Previously he had been wheelchair-bound...
...this much, the police and Girvies Davis can agree. On Dec. 22, 1978, Charles Biebel, an 89-year-old retired farmer, was found slumped in his wheelchair in a mobile home in Belleville, Illinois, his chest shredded by two bullet wounds. The following August, Davis, a 20-year-old alcoholic with a childhood history of brain damage and suicide attempts, and an arrest record dating back to age 8, was picked up for the armed robbery of an auto-parts store in East St. Louis. Ten days later, Davis confessed to 11 crimes, among them the Biebel murder...
...didn't also lose a wheelchair...
...lost treasures, when things they find are extremely valuable, they try to return them to the losers as quickly as possible. The rest lies waiting to be retrieved. I cannot reveal the contents of the lost and found, but, if you've lost a debate trophy or a wheelchair, give me a call...
...pleased by the attention TIME gave my book, The Death of Common Sense [IDEAS, April 10], but think the article was a little incomplete. You report that the scorer's box in the Minnetonka, Minnesota, municipal hockey rink ultimately was not altered for wheelchair access because another way was found to address the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I am pleased to get any corrections, but the more important fact, of which my book's once-sentence description of Minnetonka was only an illustration, is that similar needless expenditures are being made across America. The point...