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...finds that many dropouts who drop into the repair business never do learn the trade. Those with rare aptitude often find better-paying jobs with an airline, or even on an auto assembly line. Service under warranties, which cover about 10% of auto-repair business, suffers from an additional handicap. Dealers say that the automakers are niggardly with compensation for warranty work, allowing only a 25% profit margin for parts, compared with the 40% or more that a dealer can charge for nonwarranty work. As a result, dealers usually do warranty work only on cars that they have sold...
...seven-furlong $57,000 Vosburgh Handicap, the highest weight ever as signed by the track's handicapper in a regular stakes race. All the other horses carried 12 to 34 Ibs. less, but the Doc still turned the race into a scene from National Velvet. He broke swiftly out of the starting gate under Jockey Braulio Baeza, opened up a three-length lead in the stretch, then turned it on and charged home a full six lengths ahead of the place horse, Kissin' George...
...going establishment and intend to remain here with a quasicrusading role," Fulp said in his softspoken but intense manner. "Black institutions historically have had inferiority complexes. This is a handicap that we need not have to deal with. Even though we see this in print and know it to be a fact," he said, referring to the pressure on black institutions to succeed, "it must be treated as an irrelevancy. In order for people at this bank to be free to perform, they must be mentally free. This compex can't be allowed to immobilize us. Every time someone comes...
Psychologically Unsuited? Clark's biggest handicap is that he prefers the sociological approach at a time when the nation seems to be demanding more use of the nightstick. At 40, he is something of an old-fashioned liberal in a time of increasing anxiety over the New Left rebellion. The son of former Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark, Ramsey worked in the family's law firm in Dallas before beginning a Justice Department career in 1961. He and his wife still try to get together with the elder Clarks at least once a weekend, although the family rule...
Arthur Smithies and Alwin M. Pappenheimer '29, Masters of Kirkland and Dunster respectively, will compete in the "veteran single sculls." In this event for men over 40, a six-second handicap is given for every year above that age. Rowing for Harvard in the "junior light-weight single sculls" will be Bill Burns...