Word: wheelchair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rich but unscrupulous wheelchair-bound tycoon buy the U.S. presidency for his personable Congressman son? Well, this breathless book says that he can - if he has the assistance of a ruthless second son, and is prepared to pay a couple of conniving political geniuses $1,000,000 a year to give his charming offspring a doozied-up image as a vigorous battler for human rights...
...Linda's big Power play. During the past month, she has waged a selling campaign that ought to win an Oscar for Haughty Hokum and High Hucksterism. "Before Romina is 21," declares Linda, "she'll be making more money than Elizabeth Taylor. Liz will need a wheelchair by that time, the way she's carrying...
...central character is Frankenstein Roosevelt, a power-mad, aristocratic cripple whose props are a wheelchair, a cigarette holder and a pile of postage stamps. Among the characters are his five children, members of a dynasty who will some day run the country (or so everybody assumes), and an adviser named Popkins, who is usually dressed in a bathrobe and is really a Russian in disguise. The plot revolves around Frankenstein's attempts to sell the country out piecemeal to the Communists. The play ends happily when That Man dies of what looks like a stroke (actually, the deed...
...years ago, he arrived in court for a preliminary hearing seated in a wheelchair, his body swaddled in blankets, a bandana hiding his face. He has feigned insanity twice and once arrived on a stretcher. In the middle of his trial last January, he fired his lawyer, Frances Kahn, because she was a "prosecution spy" and took over his own defense. The detective who arrested him he called a "sadist." Assistant District Attorney Frank Rogers became the "persecutor." Judge Gellinoff was an "animal." Once, while cross-examining a prosecution psychiatrist, Kayo posed an hour-long hypothetical question. "Now, Doctor...
...address to over 600 doctors, nurses, and other personnel, Miss Switzer did not directly discuss Ivy League admissions, as she did afterward, but she still sharply criticized the Ivies. After praising the University of Illinois (which has 138 wheelchair students) and other schools for their special facilities, she sighed, "I'm always impressed by the absence of Ivy League colleges in these special arrangements...