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...like many other American citizens, am suffering from protonopia, a condition which makes it impossible for me to distinguish the color red. The more common, if inaccurate, term for this is color-blindness. I have had my condition since birth and have never found it a handicap (I am a licensed automobile operator) but when I faced the new exam schedule I found it composed entirely of indistinguishable blobs of lighter and darker gray...
...their books. "I advise them to put as much as they can in their educational bank," said the University of Colorado's Dean Harry Carlson. But this was not as easy as it sounded-particularly for indifferent scholars, who found that worrying about the draft added still another handicap to their desperate pursuit of grades. An increasing number were enlisting-usually in the Navy or Coast Guard ("where you can keep clean"), or in the Air Force. Nobody was enthusiastic about it, but few wanted to be dogfaces...
During a conference with a committee from the National Association of Broadcasters, Harry Truman bemoaned the "handicaps and burdens" of his office-particularly the handicap of living the lives of two men, that of a President and that of a human being. "I recognize that in the eyes of the world the office of President is the greatest a man could hold," he said. "Sometimes the frailties of the human get the better of me. Sometimes I have to work awfully hard on the human being...
...Inglewood, Calif., Horse-of-the-Year Hill Prince over three-year-old Filly-of-the-Year Next Move, by three-quarters of a length, for the $50,000 Sunset Handicap at Hollywood Park...
Heading the entry list were 1950's Horse of the Year Hill Prince, and Handicap Champion Noor. Right behind them, in anybody's book: the leading three-year-old filly, Next Move, and Calumet's handicap star, Ponder (total winnings: $541,275). Others which had to be given a chance at the weights: New York's Palestinian, California's On Trust and the 1946 Triple Crown winner, Assault. Noor, beaten three times in three starts at Belmont in the fall, was back in form; in a tune-up race, he broke the Hollywood track record...