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...Records will be broken this year as always," Krause said, "but I think the altitude will be a significant handicap in many events...
...relief to many institutions of higher learning and their students to end uncertainty about the status of graduate students' deferments under the Selective Service Law of 1967, the announced decision of the National Security Council creates more problems than it solves. In addition to the handicap it places on advanced level education, its implications for the language-trained manpower needs of the nation are alarming. The decision means that most college graduates in 1968 and students ending their first year of graduate school in 1968 will be drafted in the near future...
...also been pointed out that women who borrow money and have to re-pay it might seem less attractive to men looking for wives. The committee has proposed several ways to minimize this handicap...
Though critics claim that U.S. forces are being lured to the frontiers and thus give an undue advantage to the Communists, who enjoy the sanctuary of national borders, Westmoreland is convinced that it is a worthwhile handicap. When the enemy forces do succeed in entering South Viet Nam, he points out, they disrupt the local population, strengthen guerrilla activities, and become harder than ever to root out. It is far better, in his view, to fight the main-force units in the comparative emptiness of the frontier areas, where civilians are not endangered and the full might of U.S. firepower...
Without claiming his handicap, Hope has beaten Ben Hogan over nine holes, has tied Arnold Palmer. Once, he took $1,800 from Sportsman-Builder Del Webb, who now says, belatedly: "When you play with Hope, keep your hand on your wallet." Dolores Hope, a 13-handicap golfer herself, says she won't play with Bob again until he pays her the dollar she won in their last game; Bob just grumps. Jackie Gleason says that "Bob's only departure from sanity is his insistence that he can beat...