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Murphy stresses "what is good about America," criticizes Tunney's opposition to a bill allowing FBI agents to investigate campus bombings, links his foe to radical-liberal causes and individuals. Still hawkish, Murphy assures his audiences: "The war is going great." Murphy's age is a handicap, as is his admission that he was on Technicolor Inc.'s payroll while serving in the Senate. Head to head, Tunney probably would win. Republicans hope Reagan's ample coattails will drag his old showbiz pal along...
...none of the major crises of the 1960s-notably Viet Nam, the Middle East, Biafra and the arms race-has the U.N. been able or willing to take a positive role. One of its problems is paltry resources, a handicap that can be partially cured if it acts soon on proposals to increase the U.N.'s on-call peace-keeping force from 11,000 to 25,000 men. But the organization's relative impotence in the major East-West confrontations is all but certain to continue, if only because the U.N. was never designed to be a world...
Crimson coach Bill McCurdy, who put his team through a moderate workout yesterday, hopes his team makes a fast start in today's race. Harvard went out quickly Saturday, but it may have turned out to be a handicap in the middle of the race...
Goldberg's campaign handlers have wisely kept to a minimum his set speeches before large groups, where his pedantic delivery is at its worst. The candidate himself has learned to handle his handicap with humor. He describes a scene where he asks his wife if he really is as stuffy as pictured. She replies: "I don't think so, Mr. Justice...
...story whose hero, Pablo, shares important characteristics with the author and illustrates Che's own lifelong obsession with overcoming challenges and seeking social approval. Like Che, who grew up in a middle-class Buenos Aires family and was asthmatic, Pablo is citified, deracinated and afflicted with a physical handicap: poor sight. In the story, entitled Prueba Superada (Passing the Test), Pablo becomes almost overwhelmed by fear, anxiety and doubt after joining a guerrilla column in an unnamed Latin American country. On one terrible march, his shoes give out, his feet become badly blistered, his rifle jams and he breaks...