AA'S 35th Anniversary International Convention July 3-5, 1970, at Miami Beach

THE MAN in the wheelchair reached up, gripped the lectern with both hands, and in one smooth motion hauled himself to his full six-foot-three-inch height. To many of the thousands gathered in the huge Convention Hall in Miami Beach that Sunday morning, he seemed to rise like a sunburst, in his brave orange blazer, from behind the speaker's stand. And in another smooth motion the throng of 11,000--AAs and their families and friends--was on its feet in a standing ovation to Bill W., the surviving co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.