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Some brilliant individual performances were wasted for the Crimson as three giant slalom specialists crashed on the course at Big Tupper, in Jay, N.Y. The snowmen were never able to recover from this initial handicap...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Three Spills in St. Lawrence Meet Tumble Skiers to Last Place Finish | 2/18/1964 | See Source »

Jumper Noyes faces a tough problem that effects the entire squad to some extent: there's no place for him to practice. Aside from calisthenics and running, Noyes' training is confined to weekends and vacations. In view of this handicap, his 21st place finish out of 40 entrants at Dartmouth is considered unbelievably good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ski Hopes Hinge on St. Lawrence Meet | 2/15/1964 | See Source »

Board of Education began retreating from the "neighborhood school" to the recognition that a concentration of Negro pupils, although caused by housing patterns, is of itself an educational handicap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: The Spreading Boycott | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

...help him on the Coast. He had to have the moralistic anti-Rockefeller votes as well as those of his own ultra-conservatives to win on March 10. And plucky Senator Smith looks every inch as virtuous as Goldwater facing a divorced man and she has avoided the handicap of Barry's political extremism. Voters seeking to avoid a distasteful choice between the Governor's "sin and the Arizonan's Armageddon may leap for Senator Smith's open arms...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: Barry And The Lady | 2/13/1964 | See Source »

...there is nothing he would rather do than flail away at a golf ball. He will often ask four or five couples out for the weekend, taking the men guests with him to the golf course, where he competes tensely and excitedly and clobbers them with his 15 handicap. What do the women do while the men play? Paley pauses, never having considered that. "I don't know what the hell they do do," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Mr. CBS | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

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