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...childish and "boring" to need further comment. "Midget" is another matter. When you come down to it, what is the difference between ridiculing a player because of his race and ridiculing him because of his size? If there is a difference, it would dictate extra praise for overcoming the handicap...
...family mortgage in Provo, Utah. Later he put himself through Brigham Young University and the University of Washington dental school. Father of three, the strapping 6-ft. 2-in. Clark prospered in his Seattle practice and, before his heart began to weaken six years ago, honed his golf handicap to six. "I've done everything I wanted to do in life," he told Peg Miller. "Now if I can make a contribution, my life will count for something." If that meant dying on the operating table, he was prepared. Shortly before surgery, Clark reached for the hand...
...varied diet and gradually increasing his activity. His meals include bacon and eggs, potatoes and gravy, vegetables and lemon pie, quite a change since January, when he was forbidden to taste the heart-shaped chocolate cake that was baked for his 62nd birthday. Clark, who had been a 6-handicap golfer, avidly follows sports on TV and enjoys reading the letters that have arrived by the thousands. He was particularly pleased when a Seattle hospital named a coronary wing after him. "Just think," he said dryly, "I didn't have...
Perhaps young witnesses' greatest handicap is their limited vocabularies. In sexual abuse cases, lawyers employ a new kind of visual aid: dolls with sex organs. Using a pair of dolls, a witness can play-act what happened. Jurors in Red Wing, Minn., found this tactic thoroughly convincing in the prosecution a year ago of James Cermak, 27, for sexually abusing ten children. After four of them used dolls to show what Cermak had done to them, he was convicted and sentenced to 40 years in prison...
When he flew to Salt Lake City on Monday, Clark was clearly dying. Once a vigorous man and an avid golfer (handicap in his prime: six), Clark was suffering through the final stages of cardiomyopathy, a progressive weakening of the heart muscle that inevitably leads to congestive heart failure. The only permanent cure for cardiomyopathy is replacement of the heart, but at 61 he was eleven years over the usual age limit agreed upon by surgeons for a transplant...