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Despite the handicap of swimming in two events strange to them, Leverett's swimmers clinched the victory before the two final events...
...afford the minimum annual U.N. club fee of $40,000. The Maldive Islands near Ceylon are so poor that the U.N. must forward their mail through the Maldivian Philatelic Agency, located in Manhattan down the street from Macy's. Rwanda President Gregoire Kayibanda's chief government handicap is even more serious: he has no telephone in his palace in Kigali. Periodically he sends a minister driving off to neighboring Uganda to find out what is happening in the world. Rwanda is, however, progressing; until recently, it had only a barter economy based on cows. National pride also engenders...
Larry Seidman is even less like Burt Ross, as a leader, than Pete Weiner was. He is an idealist; he shuns the word because it is a political handicap, and so is a self-conscious idealist, but he is an idealist nonetheless. If Young Dems is ever to make a place for itself in Harvard student politics, the club must first, he maintains, define exactly what it is both to itself and to the rest of the college. That is what the club has failed to do in the past, and that, at least, is what Seidman hopes...
Maynard's urbanity and bachelor status give him an advantage to begin with, but Dwight Sargent and the Nieman Office could do much to decrease the handicap of the married Southerner or Westerner. They could also make the Nieman Fellowship more profitable for all its beneficiaries...
DARLING. Director John Schlesinger views the jet set through a glass brightly, focusing mainly on Julie Christie's shimmering performance as a go-go playgirl who finds scruples a handicap for big-league fun-and-games...