Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...court, of course, can be difficult to handicap on a given case. Despite the predictions of experts, despite the hints expressed in last week's hearing, no one could be completely certain how any of the eight Justices would fall. Yet each Justice has a record that law professors and others continually consult in trying to assess how he may rule in a specific case. TIME Correspondent David Beckwith, a lawyer himself, has surveyed such experts and offered this shorthand guide to the eight Justices as they forge their portentous decision...
Hall said that Rouillard has "exceeded our expectation" in the reorganization he has done. "As we watched him developing we came to the conclusion we should not handicap him with the term 'acting' anymore," he said...
...wife Cornelia's uncle, former Governor James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, 65, to win the Democratic nomination for an unprecedented third four-year term. The paralysis that has confined Wallace to a wheelchair since the attempt on his life two years ago was apparently no political handicap: he got more than 65% of the vote, the biggest sweep in an Alabama primary since 1920. He carried 66 of the state's 67 counties and received surprisingly strong support from blacks, whom he seriously courted for the first time in his political career. He is still coy about...
...striven to appear youthful, athletic and energetic-and succeeded all too well. Many Frenchmen regard Chaban, who was a national tennis finalist in 1965, as a "playboy," not sérieux enough to be President. Married three times, in a Catholic country where divorce is still a political handicap, he has become saddled with the nicknames "Beau Jacques"and "Charmant Delmas." Moreover, he still has a slight scent of scandal about him. He was dismissed by Pompidou in 1972 partly because it was found he had used loopholes to avoid paying taxes...
Good Listener. Hartman acknowledges that his blindness may put him at a disadvantage in diagnosing certain physical ills. But he plans to practice psychiatry and believes that his handicap may be of some help. Blindness has forced him to rely on his ears and has made him a good listener. In medicine, he says, "there are a lot of people who feel that you can be more effective by listening...