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Shriver's chief handicap is that he is not extremely well known and has never held elective office. Johnson understands this deficiency. He made Shriver director of the war on poverty partly to increase Shriver's reputation and political stock...
...state, is the Governor of a neighboring state. Moreover, New Hampshire's postage-stamp size seemed made to order for Rockefeller's ebullient, back-slapping brand of campaigning. Beyond question, Rocky made gains in the closing weeks, but not nearly enough to overcome the political handicap of his divorce and remarriage. That handicap will likely plague him wherever he goes. But after his New Hampshire defeat, he put on an optimistic air. Lodge's win, he said, was "a victory for moderation," since the voters had rejected "extremism in the party." He insisted that he had made...
...than the men." "Two girls were eliminated in my class at University of Washington Law, because they just could not bring themselves to argue a rape case," recalls Mary Sanders, who herself has given up practice and is now chief law librarian for the attorney general of California. Another handicap, recalls a male jurist, is that "the men in law school study together, drink coffee together, share their notes, ideas and problems, while the women have to bear the burden as loners...
...well as white students. Negro enrollments would tend to "debilitate" presently all white schools. Under these circumstances, Lowe does not regard civil rights as the only worthwhile goal to be achieved for the Negro. He prefers to devote his own attention to specific psychological or socio-economic disabilities that handicap Negroes in Boston...
...decisive. And regardless of difficulty, it is important to diagnose the disorder early -when there is still hope of arresting it with anticoagulants. It probably is never "cured" in the literal sense, and only rarely is it reversed so thoroughly that the patient is freed of his handicap...