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...Crimson placed ahead of B.U., Wentworth Institute, M.I.T. and Northeastern in the handicap competition. Without the handicap Harvard would have wound up third behind Northeastern and M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gunmen Win Tourney | 4/26/1965 | See Source »

...local thoroughbred racing season opens at Suffolk Downs, in East Boston. The Suffolk meeting will last 66 days, and it promises to be the best in the track's history. Today's card is headed by the $6500 Patriots Day Handicap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Sports Day; Fans in Ecstasy | 4/19/1965 | See Source »

...name was no handicap. Nor was all the free publicity showered on him when a couple of Tory M.P.s protested that the bloomin' British taxpayer was forking out ten quid a week to support-of all people-Would-Be Actor Michael Chaplin, 19, Wife Patricia, 25, and their six-month-old baby. All the same, Charlie's eldest son by Fourth Wife Oona O'Neill got off the dole by being just the slob for the job. The script of Promise Her Anything, which Hollywood Producer Stanley Rubin is filming in London, calls for a weirdie-beardie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 16, 1965 | 4/16/1965 | See Source »

...academic work at the Kennedy Institute? Scarcely the young Everett Dirksens and Lyndon Johnsons, who make their way through elections on their close ties with the home folks. Scarcely, too, the men from parts of the country where the Harvard, and even the Kennedy, name may be a handicap. The most likely "junior fellows" are the budding Joseph Clarks, Fulbrights, Douglases, McGees, and Kuchels--in other words, precisely those who already take advantage of academic study in their work and would profit least from the simple exposure to professors...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Kennedy Institute: Who Gains? | 3/31/1965 | See Source »

Unfortunately, I never finished high school, because my parents sent me to a private school at the age of 14. This severe handicap in my preparation for life has often plagued-me. Friends' fond reminiscences of sock-hops and eider sales, of the gaiety and glamour of high school life, set aching in me a vast void that seemed destined never to be filled...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: The Compleat Scholar | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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