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Scholastic troubles may handicap Chuck Harding, but he is the team's best performer, at 167. Up one class, 177 pound Arnold Rubin is back in shape after suffering an injury before Christmas...
...They're an exceptionally fine squad with a great potential," he commented. Leavitt stressed that the 150's had done surprisingly well, though laboring under the handicap of not having a full time coach. Newly appointed 150-pound coach Tod Reynolds has had to divide his time between crew and the Business School, where he is studying...
...island-hopping Sixth Army. But to Dorothy Smith, brunette and high-strung, the lot of a conscientious soldier's wife was not a happy one. Monotony unnerved her, loneliness oppressed; she sought excitement in alcohol, forgetfulness in dope. The colonel, she believed, regarded his wife as a clinging handicap to his professional career...
Fortunately, the rough end of the schedule does not come until February, when the wrestlers must successively face six of the East's foremost powers: Army, Brown, Princeton, Springfield, Columbia and Yale. Until then, Pickett must whip his line-up into shape and overcome the handicap of inexperience against Boston University, Amherst, Tufts and Williams...
...Time Problem. Other stars may have better planets. But a handicap to interstellar voyages is that they must conquer not only space but time. Even the nearest stars are light-years away, and each light-year is six trillion miles. If a space ship traveled at 50,000 m.p.h. (high speed in the solar system), it would take many thousands of years to reach a nearby star. Its crew would die of old age before the voyage had really gotten under...