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...needless imposition of Sweet briar restraints is a large academic handicap; the $650 charge added to travel and living expenses inflicts a foolish financial burden as well...
...invested as Premier (thus making it easier to find a new man), and provides that he must present his entire Cabinet before winning the Assembly's confidence (thus increasing the pressure the Assembly can put on him). There were also useful provisions designed to handicap the Communists, e.g., eliminating the chance of Communists getting interim Cabinet posts after a government falls. La Réformette has been kicking around Parliament for four years and was not Mendès' baby, but he demanded that the Assembly avoid a national referendum on the issue by giving it a three...
While is rival is practicing, the Yale sportsman will spend the first two weeks in January with his books. And when he is ready for competition his rival will be with the books, all of which means no competition for Yale during January, and gives Eli teams a decided handicap during the rest of the season...
...Paris, Ky., on the day the Gallant Fox Memorial Handicap was being run at Jamaica, Belair Stud's great bay stallion Gallant Fox died at the age of 27. One of the few thoroughbreds ever to win racing's Triple Crown (The Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes in 1930), the Fox of Belair also was the first such winner to sire another; his son, Omaha, turned the trick...
...Unless we can get waivers, I shall put up a strong protest," Peddle continued. "we shall be seriously hurt because our strength has been in attracting boys from the small towns. We handle them almost entirely by mail, and a $10 fee would be quite a handicap in attracting them...