Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israeli Cabinet in a governmental shake-up last May. But he will return to Israel to take his seat in the Knesset in December, with no fears that his academic interlude might weaken his appeal. "In politics," he says, "a discreet measure of literacy is no longer a fatal handicap...
...scientist at Canada's Ontario Research Foundation has found a convenient way to overcome the microscope's handicap; Physicist Eric J. Chatfield has devised an adapter system that enables the electron-microscope user to get three-dimensional images. His optical stereo, which he developed at a cost of only $25,000-less than the price of a typical electron-microscope-operates on an ingenious yet simple principle reminiscent of Hollywood's experiments with 3-D movies in the 1950s...
...Nebraska (his parents were both teachers), and his high school traumas (he was the shortest boy in any assembly). He was also the brightest and most competitive (he was twice a Nebraska state champion in gymnastics, a sport in which his 5 ft. 6 in. height was no handicap...
...career in American politics was a drama marked by breathtaking climbs to what he often called the "mountain-top," followed by precipitous plunges to the depths. Not many of his fellow citizens loved nun. Many respected and admired him. Perhaps just as many hated him. He labored under the handicap of being mysterious without being fascinating. His supporters saw him as shrewd enough to win elections and capable enough to run an efficient centrist-conservative Administration that would save the country from radical or liberal excess. To his enemies, he was devious and dangerous, a man without principle, a hungry...
...will quickly discover that Gerald Ford's limitations, which seem pretty clear, are not going to seem so horrendous. To be sure, it is a handicap that Ford was not elected to the presidency. He is unprepared for the office with respect to administrative experience; that certainly is a handicap. But he will triumph because he has not lusted after the office of President. Ford is an honest man. He gets on well with the people. He is an open man, and what our society needs now is openness. Artfulness got Lyndon Johnson in trouble abroad; artfulness got Nixon...