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...factors seem to be working against Harvard wrestlers today. The match is at Franklin and Marshall, and, as Pickett said, "It's always a handicap to be away from home." More importantly, Franquemont, Hall, Wickens, and Brooks will all be giving weight to their F and M opponents, a serious disadvantage...
Wilde Talk. "You have the virtue of courage, my dear," explained the Hippodrome impresario who discovered her, "but in the theater one virtue has never been as handy as a couple of vices." And virtue was not her only handicap. In the day of the hourglass figure, Yvette was as bony as the Eiffel Tower, and, over all, decided Oscar Wilde, the ugliest woman in the world...
...final results indicate that there can indeed be too much of a good thing. Labor's microscopic margin of victory will undoubtedly handicap attempts to exploit their greatest asset, the promise of innovation. In fact, Labor faces a most unpleasant dilemma; if it tries to use radical techniques to improve industrial efficiency and solve pressing problems of housing, poverty, transportation, and education it will face the danger of losing a necessarily close vote of confidence. But if Labor decides instead to avoid risk and float with slack sails it may be pulled under by the problems left by the Tories...
...only experienced players on the 1964 roster are All-Ivy halfback Steve Robinson and right wing Waldemar Schulz. In the team's first two games of the season Schulz broke the fibula in his right leg and Robinson dislocated a shoulder. (He has continued to play despite this handicap...
...other hand, has just about the same assets it has had for the last two years: Archie Roberts and questionable support. Roberts has yet to prove that he can inspire his teammates to play winning football every week; perhaps he can this year, but this week he has a handicap. Three of the Lions' first-stringers are injured at the moment...