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...spends 90% of his time barnstorming around the Midwest. Iowa State has lured no fewer than 23 players out of the fertile football towns of Ohio, traditionally the Big Ten's nursery. In its recruiting competition with the Big Eight, the Big Ten operates under one severe handicap: its prospects must go through the indignity of proving financial need before they can get a full scholarship...
Kentucky: Kennedy is gaining from factory layoffs (in farm machinery, appliances) but Catholicism is proving a tough handicap. Slightly Nixon...
...Perkins, now, at 78, a thrice-a-week lecturer at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and still as spunky as the day in 1933 when, as the nation's first female Cabinet member, she admitted to a reporter that her sex might be a handicap in one respect -"climbing trees...
Forbush turned in a fine performance in the goal Wednesday with the handicap of a dislocated finger. He can expect a busier day against Amherst, however...
...right to change the author's words"), Thurber played himself with fluffless finesse in a twelve-minute sketch about a writer embroiled in a frustrating correspondence with his bureaucratic publisher. Since the role calls for him to be seated throughout, Thurber's blindness was no handicap, and Meredith felt that the part "lit an old fuse in him; he seems to have come up with some peculiar stage ability." Equally enthused, the New York Times critic labeled the actor "the perfect Thurber." Drinking it all in, the Great White Way's white-haired new hope announced that...