Word: tape
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Because he could not take written entrance exams, Georgakakis was barred from high school and relegated to making brooms and brushes with his teeth, a future he could not bear. Then, when he was 20, a new law allowed him to take oral exams. With the aid of a tape recorder, the gift of a New Zealander whom his father had hidden during the war, Georgakakis graduated at the top of his class. In 1959 he ranked fifth among 2,000 applicants to Athens University's law school, won a scholarship as the first blind student ever admitted. After...
...artificial right hand, and only one finger on his left hand that has any sense of touch. A onetime Cretan shepherd boy who received his disabilities from a German mine explosion in 1944, Georgakakis uses the tip of his tongue to "read" Braille, got through law school by tape-recording and memorizing 60,000 pages of legislation. Highly impressed by his showing, the bar examiners took an unprecedented step: they urged every imaginable government and business leader to hire the winner at once, declaring that his blindness "bears witness to his exceptional abilities...
...avail. The law office where he had served his apprenticeship decided against hiring him. Partly supported by his aged father, who still tends bees and olive trees in Crete, Georgakakis goes on struggling in Athens, studying tape-recorded legislation, handling a few minor cases sent to him by friends, and hunting the bigger, elusive job that would vindicate his efforts. His spirit is waning. "My dream has been to become a productive unit of society," he says. "What...
...crashed into walls, plunged beneath chairs or fluttered helplessly to the floor were eight judges, including a woman parachutist, the pilot of the Goodyear blimp, a senior researcher of Princeton's aerodynamics laboratory, and the owner of Manhattan's Go Fly A Kite store. Using stop watches, tape measures and esthetic expertise, the judges picked winners in four different categories: duration aloft, distance flown, aerobatics and origami (the ancient Japanese art of paper folding...
Crimson runners took all their events but the hurdles. Sophomore Dick Howe edged out juniors Jim Baker and Trey Burns in a dramatic mile. Howe led off a fierce challenge by Baker to hit the tape first, though both were timed...