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...summer they are sent out to talk to at least 200 strangers. They keep notes on how those strangers react, and are amazed to find that only one in 100 would ever dream of ridiculing them. As their fear melts away, the stutterers relax and begin to face their handicap...
Because of the age handicap, Barkley is an outsider in the Democratic race, but an interesting outsider...
...primary election, generally thought to be the most democratic procedure for nominating candidates for office, has long been a handicap to Massachusetts Republicans. It has the effect of shutting off the G.O.P. from the state's powerful groups of non-Yankee voters, especially Irish, Italians, French Canadians and Jews. Party leaders have tried to appeal to non-Yankees by putting up non-Yankee candidates, but the overwhelming Yankee majority in Republican primaries tends to defeat the non-Yankees. Result: the Massachusetts Republicans often go into general elections with "unbalanced" tickets...
...child is born deaf, the sooner his handicap can be measured and treated, the better. The trouble is that methods of measuring deafness which work well enough with adults are of little use with the very young. At the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, doctors are using a method which gets around this difficulty by combining a midget electric shock and Pavlov's psychology of conditioning...
...serious presidential possibilities, Averell Harriman and Adlai Stevenson, have been divorced. Pollster George Gallup tried to find out how much of a handicap divorce would be to a candidate. His results: more than 81% of his sample said they would vote for a qualified candidate even if he were divorced, 14% would...