Word: handicapped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...size of the handicap varies widely from club to club. At one extreme, members of Los Angeles' Hillcrest Country Club (whose ranks include Jack Benny, George Burns and Groucho Marx) learned several years ago that oil had been discovered on their land; the club has no problems with membership turnover. Members, who have shares in the club, collect tax-sheltered dividends on their original initiation fees, and "B.O." (for "before oil") memberships have become so valuable that they are willed from father...
...Legally, it couldn't have worked out any better. "Parravano said, "but it will be interesting to see how Bill Salter's trial comes out. I'd like to know if the Judge was easy because of my handicap." William H. Salter of Tuffs University is appealing the same charges on Tuesday...
...groaning all the while that the Japanese "must learn the art of coming to the point as fast as possible." Other Premiers have been stiff and unapproachable; Tanaka rattles on to all comers about his favorite movie stars (Gary Cooper, Deborah Kerr), his golf game (he has an 18 handicap), or his impatient manner ("I think like an American"). When a newsman asked the Premier what he had prayed for at a shrine near Nagoya that he and several of his Cabinet Ministers had visited one stifling day after his election, Tanaka said something about "preparing myself spiritually...
...superstitious and the sentimental, two additional news notes may be of interest. The Crimson squad defeated coach McCurdy in the pre-season handicap run this year. Last year, McCurdy won While he protested the judging of this year's race. McCurdy said he was pleased with the outcome...
Such positions have been seldom heard in the overwhelmingly liberal Fourth, which resoundingly endorsed the campaigns of McCarthy and McGovern and gave Humphrey's 1968 presidential race landslide approval. What makes the Nelson showing more surprising still is the handicap of strong competition for the conservative" vote...