Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCarthy organization suffers severely from a lack of professionalism. Clark is not a good campaign administrator, and Goodwin, the only man at the top who has been through a presidential campaign before, has given the campaign whatever order it has. Money, strangely enough, is not a very big handicap now. McCarthy's biggest problem for the long run is building a professional staff-and keeping it from Kennedy. Goodwin, a close friend of Bobby's, admits that he is "torn" between the two candidates, and no one would be surprised to see him shift camps after the Wisconsin...
Femininity was not the only handicap overcome by Miss Kivisild. She is the first foreign student (born in Canada) and the first Architectural student elected to the post. She sees her election as a "protest vote", and attributed it to the fact that "no one could connect me with anything political...
...They include Los Angeles' maverick Mayor Samuel Yorty, State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh, and perhaps even former Governor Edmund Brown. Not one of them can match Rafferty's turgid prose style-but that, in a long, hard-fought campaign, may prove more of a virtue than a handicap...
...Records will be broken this year as always," Krause said, "but I think the altitude will be a significant handicap in many events...
...relief to many institutions of higher learning and their students to end uncertainty about the status of graduate students' deferments under the Selective Service Law of 1967, the announced decision of the National Security Council creates more problems than it solves. In addition to the handicap it places on advanced level education, its implications for the language-trained manpower needs of the nation are alarming. The decision means that most college graduates in 1968 and students ending their first year of graduate school in 1968 will be drafted in the near future...