For five years, Alan Maxwell Palmer, 46, had known a fate that would have plunged most men into despair. A U.S. Navy veteran who lost one hand in World War II, he moved to Mexico in 1949 to shake off a series of mysterious headaches. There, surgeons removed a brain tumor and saved his life, but Palmer found him self blind. Though he earned a living by writing about Mexico for U.S. industrial magazines, he could not always escape the hours of empty boredom. "Friends," says he, "stop in to chat and read to you. But much of the time...
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