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...Mondale noted that when he held a hearing to argue against more aircraft carriers, it was a case of "myself and one college kid versus the U.S. Navy and everybody who wanted to build a carrier, or who had a friend who was an ensign or above. We foolishly handicap ourselves by failing to properly staff ourselves...
According to standard theory, such an experience during a child's first year should handicap him for life. But Harvard Psychologist Jerome Kagan last week reported quite different findings. By the time children in San Marcos reach the age of eleven, Kagan told the American Association for the Advancement of Science, they score as high on tests of memory, reasoning ability and perception as middle-class American children. So except in cases of physical defects, he concluded, "infant retardation is reversible, and cognitive development in the early years is plastic...
...situations, gradually progressing to full game conditions. Throughout his career. Knight has had first-rate defensive ball clubs. When he coached at Army before coming to Indians, his ball clubs were invariably in the top live in the nation in leam defense. This was done under the handicap of not being able to recruit anyone over six feet six inches under West Point rules...
...DePauw University, where the 17-year-old Margaret had "expected to become a person," she was confronted instead with "the snobbery and cruelty of the sorority system at its worst." In a college that was then geared to producing Rotarians and garden-club members, her intellectual gifts were a handicap. Her atrocious clothes did not help: to a Kappa rushing party, she wore a dress of her own design; it suggested a wheatfield with poppies. Her sponsor turned her back at the sight, and Margaret found the evening "strangely confusing" because she did not then know that everyone had been...
...hardware dealer from downstate Wallace country who serves as legislative leader, Tribbitt wisely responded to his opportunity by saying very little. The fact that Delaware has no commercial TV stations of its own was no handicap for the old-line Democrat. He is, as his son-in-law and campaign manager Skip Webb conceded to reporters, "not too articulate." Tribbitt simply waited patiently for his majority to pile...