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...otherwise qualified handicapped individual in the United States ... shall, solely by reason of his handicap, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance...
...handicap to Udall's position that virtue and vig or in newspapering do not turn solely on whether a paper is in local or absentee hands. Some individually owned pa pers, like William Loeb's Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader, are more noted for oldfashioned, blatant, goofy and mean-spirited eccentricity than any chain paper. Yet ideally a good independently owned paper with deep roots in its community is best for that community. That is Udall's argument. A lot of editors are properly leery about political intrusion in their business, but the trend toward concentrated ownership...
...world addicted to pretentious sham, Billy Carter enjoys and insists on just being himself, in spite of the massive handicap of a genetic coincidence. Obviously being born once was enough...
...consciousness of members by citing famous stutterers, among them Moses, Demosthenes, Darwin and Maugham. Members also learn about well-known "closet cases" who go through elaborate rituals and word substitutions in public to conceal their affliction. To the N.S.P., trying to cover up a stammer is bad; the handicap must be announced frankly and faced...
Crosby became not only an avid but also a proficient golfer, as he whittled his handicap down to two. In 1940 he was a sectional qualifier for the U.S. Open and in 1950 he qualified to play in the British Amateur at St. Andrews. Playing before a huge gallery Crosby, whose home course then was the Bel-Air Country Club, began his first match in the Amateur by scoring threes on the first pair of holes...