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...stock, in what he calls his "third incarnation in advertising," he is intent on making the shop illustrious again. Says Foote of the Regimen affair: "That hurt us. We lost accounts totaling $2,500,000 as a result of the conviction, and we found it a handicap both in attracting business and people." Today Emerson Foote, Inc.'s billings are $9,100,000 v. $14 million at Kastor Hilton's peak...
...India and Sweden asked why the have-nots should give up their right to bombs if the haves give up nothing in return. West Germany, which believes that it has the potential to be second only to the U.S. in building and selling reactors, fears that the treaty would handicap its nuclear development. Furthermore, the West Germans are afraid that the Russians would use the inspection clause to pry into West German plants, disrupt important research on the ground that it violated the treaty, and filch patents. The treaty, said Franz Josef Strauss, leader of the Bavarian branch...
...knowledge in imaginative ways, most grade school teachers still innocently overlook one of the ageless and most fundamental complications in teaching-the fact that boys are different from girls. One might suppose that the nation's predominantly women teachers would have noticed the difference; yet they continue to handicap boys by expecting them to learn and behave like girls...
...Handicap. "All nightingales understand each other," wrote Yevtushenko hopefully in 1960. "Everywhere they speak the same tongue." But unhappily, intelligible dialogue between American and Russian nightingales is severely inhibited, partly in the matter of language, chiefly by the nature of Yevtushenko's nonpoetical preoccupations. The handicap is not so much that his muse is a Marxist but that she is a public creature: poetic sensibility in the West is involved in more private, perhaps more eternal matters...
Labor not only lost such champions as Senate Candidate G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams in Michigan, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas and California's Governor Pat Brown, but also did worse than it expected in the general run of races across the country. "We had one handicap this time," noted Meany. "We didn't have Goldwater against...