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Brand-new French Peugeot bicycles cost 1,000 dongs-roughly three years' salary -and the few available ancient autos cost twice that, with the additional handicap that on the black market gasoline is $5 a gallon. Taken on tour of Hanoi's newly cleaned streets and decorated landmarks, Sukarno did not get to see Hanoi's most interesting place, the "bicycle market," where Ming vases and other heirlooms, sold by desperate families, go for less than more useful bicycles...
...many pews may be empty in England, but the easy chairs, sofas and hassocks in front of television sets are well warmed. What is more, TV producers want more clergymen to man their panel-discussion programs. This chance to talk to a vast new congregation is hampered by one handicap: pulpit-trained preachers and priests often show up as poor performers on the TV screen...
...goat's'' last place. Less fortunate was Navy's All-American Tackle Bob Reifsnyder, who graduated in last place as Annapolis' "anchor man." Reifsnyder got no commission because of football injuries and high blood pressure, instead will go where such defects are no handicap-the Los Angeles Rams...
MASSACHUSETTS' Senator Jack Kennedy, front runner in all the polls, is (in the Truman-Rayburn view) too young (42), with the massive additional handicap of being a Roman Catholic. But Truman and Rayburn agreed that Kennedy is a top prospect for second spot on any ticket...
...them. Later, their lines more polished. Pat and pals turned Guido into a golf pro. introduced him to Singer Dick Haymes, who suggested that he had once played Guide's home course in Salerno. (There is no golf course in Salerno though Pat plays high-grade three-handicap golf.) At a party later, NBC Announcer Ben Grauer was as gullible as Haymes...