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...dingy office building next to a false teeth factory in Austin and found Bill Broyles, an ex-Marine who was then an assistant to the Houston school superintendent. Like virtually everyone else Levy hired, Broyles was under 30 and almost innocent of journalistic experience. That was no handicap. After its first year, Texas Monthly won a National Magazine Award for specialized journalism, the first time the magazine industry's Oscar has gone to a newcomer...
...major handicap for Carter in holding on to key components of his coalition could be that he is a "born again" evangelical Christian. Many Catholics, who have not always fared well at the hands of Southern Baptists, are worried about the fact. So are some Jews, who constitute only 4% of the electorate but are highly important in key states like New York, California and Florida. Republican Senator Mark Hatfield, a deeply religious Protestant, suggests that Carter's brand of evangelicalism also unsettles many other Protestants because it implies that "he has a direct line...
...first-string caddy tore an Achilles' tendon at Royal Birkdale in Southport, England, last week, Jack Nicklaus Sr. brought up a substitute to carry his clubs in the British Open -Jack Nicklaus Jr. At 14, the 6 ft. 2 in. Nicklaus fils is already down to a five handicap, but as he watched his father practice, he promised to hold his tongue. "Believe me," he said, "I would never tell him what club to use." Out on the course, however, that promise proved easier to break than par: "When I asked for a six-iron," reported Jack...
...Hubert Humphrey's 1968 running mate, but stumbled in his own reach for the top in 1972. The former Governor has served 17 competent years in the Senate, and could well rise to the demands of any succession to the White House. His past losses, however, are a handicap...
What exactly is a roman à clef? There is no equivalent in English for this phrase that literally means novel with a key−a story whose characters are modeled on real people. The roman à clef, a reader is tempted to answer, is ticktacktoe with a one-move handicap. Naturally there is more to it than that, and the question deserves a sober−but not too sober−answer. For, thanks to Ehrlichman and The Company, Truman Capote and Answered Prayers, and Elizabeth Ray and The Washington Fringe Benefit, the roman à clef may become not only...