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...Crimson team faced a double handicap, since it had little time to practice and plenty of time to get tired on the long auto trip to the West. Yale, which has never yet topped the Crimson in skiing competition, finished last in the meet. Middlebury, the winning college, scored 394.47 points. Harvard scored 344.32, and Yale...
Problems of Chemistry. Dr. Pitzer's youth is no handicap in the still-young world of atomic energy, but the fact that he is a chemist rather than a physicist may surprise a good many scientists. The AEC's official explanation is that the work of the commission's laboratories is tending more & more toward chemistry. One of the urgent tasks is getting uranium out of low-grade ores. Another: chemical separation of the dangerous radioactive byproducts of plutonium manufacture. Says Dr. Pitzer: "The problems holding up the Atomic Energy Commission are chiefly chemical ones. The problems...
Citation, after galloping off with the $50,000 Tanforan Handicap, "cooled out" like a sound horse. But Trainer Jimmy Jones was suspicious: "He didn't seem to run as kindly as usual. Arcaro had to whip him repeatedly. When Citation is good, you don't have to touch him with a whip." Last week, three days after the race, Trainer Jones found the trouble...
...books helped to explain Germany's military collapse from the German side: Defeat in the West, by Milton Shulman, a former Canadian intelligence officer, and The German Generals Talk, by British Captain B. H. Liddell Hart. Both concluded that the German army's biggest handicap in the field was Adolf Hitler's personal direction of the war. Of special interest and excellent of their kind were A. D. Divine's Dunkirk, a brilliant recording of the cross-Channel rescue of Britain's beaten army in 1940, and Memoirs of a Secret Agent of Free France...
When he went back to his home town in 1915 to practice medicine, young Dr. William Lowry Pressly worked under a small handicap. It was embarrassing to be remembered, and hailed, as "Buck." But before long he was "Dr. Buck." After 33 years he is still Dr. Buck to most of the 2,250 people in Due West,* S.C. But in other ways, times have changed...