Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...might well serve as a model for federal action. Chapter 151 of the Revised New Jersey Statutes requires that all owners or would-be owners of firearms have an identification card, involving fingerprinting and a character investigation. A criminal record, narcotics addiction, alcoholism, mental illness or a physical handicap that would impair proficiency with a gun are all grounds for withholding the card. The police may also reject "any person where the issuance would not be in the interest of the public health, safety or welfare"-a catchall designed to keep weapons from going to individuals with long records...
...second factor in Forward Pass' favor, racing luck--every horse needs it. In the Derby, simply, Dancer's Image had it and Forward Pass did not. The two drew post position twelve and thirteen in the fourteen-horse field, and the handicap of an outside post is much greater to a speed horse, who will fight for the lead around the first turn, than to a horse like Dancer's Image who will be dropped back along the rail regardless of position. Forward Pass' connections calculate that the post position cost him two lengths. He lost by a length...
...further clarification, Johnson set four minimal requirements for a meeting place: adequate official channels of communication; access for the representatives of U.S. allies, such as South Viet Nam; opportunity for full press coverage; and a mutually agreeable setting giving neither side a psychological advantage or handicap...
...needs. For far different reasons, Bobby looks on Indiana as the key to his blitzkrieg strategy in the same way that his brother Jack regarded the West Virginia primary in 1960. Jack had to win West Virginia by a big margin to prove that his Roman Catholicism was no handicap in a predominantly Protestant state. Bobby wants to win big in Indiana to prove that he is not merely an urban phenomenon or a prodigy of the Eastern enclave...
...Bobby!" (which has a sexual connotation to some youngsters), and he does. Bobby, 42, can be less formal than Jack, who was also 42 eight years ago but felt that he had to convince voters of his maturity. As Roman Catholicism is no longer a handicap in American politics, neither is relative youth-both thanks to J.F.K...