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...portrays on screen. Much of his social life is standard Hollywood-"a dinner party at Jean Simmons' and Dick Brooks', or over to Lucy's or Dean's house to watch a movie." Otherwise, he divides his time between golf and "lady people." His handicap in the former is twelve; he scores high, too, with the latter. He prefers to entertain girl friends at his place, spurns all invitations to meet a lady person on her home grounds. "I mean, who needs it-the apartment with the bullfighter posters, and the door made into a coffee...
Finally, the Curle-Whitten report pointed out that the Ed School seriously neglected the teaching of pedagogy, a particular handicap for Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) students who each year graduate from Longfellow Hall into brutal urban classrooms...
Congress is punishing students, but its method of punishment is far from direct, and in the process it may be hurting the federal agencies that it is really trying to help. A Defense Department Official said that denying NASA funds to colleges that bar recruiters would "serve to handicap" the entire military recruitment program on campuses. In that case, too, Congress may have actually played into the hands of militant students, who, by getting their college to bar military recruiters, see NASA, another vestige of the federal presence, removed from their campus...
...recharged. The floor of Caltech's minibus was covered with 20 lead-cobalt batteries, on top of which were pads where off-duty drivers slept. M.I.T.'s team borrowed a set of $20,000 nickel-cadmium batteries. Characteristically, the engineers used linear equations to work out a handicap system...
...domestic market, Fiamma turns out most of her shoes for foreign feet. Eldest child of the founder of Ferragamo of Florence, she took over her present position when her father died in 1960, despite the fact that she was only 18. Her youthfulness has hardly been a handicap. From 76,000 pairs in 1960, Ferragamo has increased its annual production to 130,000 pairs, of which 70% are sold abroad. By far the biggest market is the U.S., where fashion-conscious women spend $22 for simple suede knock abouts, $65 for embroidered pumps and up to $175 for alligator styles...