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...role as students may be, if anything, a handicap for the kind of opposition that will best hold Nixon's strongman tendencies in check. So long as our demonstrations can be brushed aside in citizen's minds with the tag of "cynical student rebellion," Nixon has little to worry about. Fortunately, his victory cannot destroy the work of public-interest lobbyists. Nor can it halt either the effects of grass-roots community organizing or the appeal of anti-administration campaigns focused on undisguisable conditions: inflation, racism, inequitable taxes, military overextension and waste, violations of civil liberties, poor housing, corporation influence...
...started the series with a major handicap. They had lost Slugger Reggie Jackson (25 home runs in 1972) in the final play-off game against the Tigers when he severely ruptured a hamstring muscle while sliding into home plate. Enter Catcher Gene Tenace (five home runs in 1972), who began the season on the bench and only won his job from Dave Duncan in the past couple of months. Tenace quickly silenced the sanguinary Reds fans in the opener, lashing home runs in his first two trips to the plate to set a new World Series record. Oakland managed only...
...size of the handicap varies widely from club to club. At one extreme, members of Los Angeles' Hillcrest Country Club (whose ranks include Jack Benny, George Burns and Groucho Marx) learned several years ago that oil had been discovered on their land; the club has no problems with membership turnover. Members, who have shares in the club, collect tax-sheltered dividends on their original initiation fees, and "B.O." (for "before oil") memberships have become so valuable that they are willed from father...
...Legally, it couldn't have worked out any better. "Parravano said, "but it will be interesting to see how Bill Salter's trial comes out. I'd like to know if the Judge was easy because of my handicap." William H. Salter of Tuffs University is appealing the same charges on Tuesday...
...groaning all the while that the Japanese "must learn the art of coming to the point as fast as possible." Other Premiers have been stiff and unapproachable; Tanaka rattles on to all comers about his favorite movie stars (Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr), his golf game (he has an 18 handicap), or his impatient manner ("I think like an American"). When a newsman asked the Premier what he had prayed for at a shrine near Nagoya that he and several of his Cabinet Ministers had visited one stifling day after his election, Tanaka said something about "preparing myself spiritually...