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...effectiveness of the U.N. air force had been severely limited by the fact that, like U.N. ground and naval forces, it was forbidden to strike at the enemy's main Manchurian bases-"an enormous handicap unprecedented in military history." But the real reason for the U.N.'s reverses, said MacArthur, was sheer weight of numbers. "As far as I can see," said MacArthur, "no strategical or tactical mistakes were made of any basic proportion...
...Best Thing. Faced with their child's deafness, says Professor Myklebust, some parents become overprotective, allow the child to play tyrant, fail to prepare him for the problems ahead. Other parents take the opposite extreme; they make no allowances for the child, confront his handicap with open hostility. Still other parents weep in front of the child, drag him to specialist after specialist for further treatment...
...Inglewood, Calif., William Goetz's Your Host over Calumet Farm's Ponder (by a nose) and Horse-of-the-Year Hill Prince (by another neck) in the $35,000 Thanksgiving Day Handicap, at a mile-and-a-sixteenth...
...Chinese Communist air force had a tactical advantage oyer the U.S. Far East Air Force last week. U.S. pilots were under strict orders not to cross the Korea-Manchuria border, or even to fire across it. Communist flyers, under no such handicap, were staging hit & run raids across the frontier...
Some people will observe--and justly so--that it is a relatively simple thing to keep us the spirits of a sophomore football player, and and there are 19 sophomores on the 45-man squad. But sophomores have been a handicap as well as a help to Lloyd Jordan, the head coach. While he has perhaps found it fairly easy to maintain the morale of the sophomores, it is also true that they lack the experience of the seniors. When a new coach comes in football is usually at a low ebb and frequently there is an abundance of seniors...