Word: handicapping
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President Ford has a handicap estimated at 16 and is often known to play a Sunday breakfast round with other politicos at Washington's all-male Burning Tree golf club. Ford belted a drive further than Arnold Palmer at the opening ceremonies of the World Gold Hall of Fame and teamed with Jack Nicklaus in the Jackie Geason pro-am. Former presidents Nixon and Eisenhower were also avid golfers while in the oval office. The switch from gold to fishing in the White House signals a deep-rooted transition in the national temperament. The country is already heading in more...
...soundtrack is filled with homogenized harmonics passing for rock, but not a single song is good enough even to be counterfeit. There are whimpy ballads and, on occasion, an up-tempo number that might make the Peter Duchin Orchestra restless. No recognizable rock, however, which is a distinct handicap in a movie that deals with two pop superstars who are supposed to be singing it, playing it and living...
Solid junior Jim Corcoran (158 1bs.) returns after going 7-5-1 as a sophomore. He will be followed by blind sophomore Ed Bordley (167 1bs.), who overcame his handicap to win a starting spot and three matches as a freshman. He has worked hard and is vastly improved over last year, Lee said yesterday...
...knowledge of actual conditions in other parts of the world, which I found understandable in view of the much more advanced state of their technical civilization and the vastness of the country, which in many ways formed a world apart. These latter characteristics were to develop later into a handicap in the conduct of their policies as a leading power in the world...
...point where we haven't yet built up to the limit that we can have under Vladivostok. So I think it's just a lack of knowledge, and it's a very unwise position for him. It gives the Soviets more and it tends to handicap...