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Right from the start, the conference faced one major handicap: the absence of the three principals. Boycotting the session were Viet Nam, which has occupied Cambodia for the past 30 months, and the Soviet Union, which had bankrolled the Vietnamese invasion. Cambodia, whose government was installed by Viet Nam, was not invited...
...golfs weekly (her handicap is 18), plays an average game of tennis and, typically, works intensely at both...
Biographer Richard Layman has gathered most of the clues to this puzzling case. He got no help from Playwright Lillian Hellman, Hammett's friend and frequent companion during the last 30 years of his life, but this handicap is not crippling. Hammett had done his best work by the time he met Hellman. The crucial years, when he raised pulp writing to the level of art, were already behind...
...containing only 3% U-235. This hampers would-be bombsmiths, since enriching U-235 to a high level demands extremely complex separation techniques that are still beyond the capability of all but the most advanced industrial countries. Yet there are some relatively simple ways of overcoming this handicap...
...leave his mark on racing history as the trainer of Secretariat, Triple Crown winner in 1973. Then Campo worked as a groom for Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, trainer of Triple Crown legends Gallant Fox (1930) and Omaha (1935). Finally Campo joined the stables of Eddie Neloy, trainer of the great handicap horse Buckpasser...