Word: handicapping
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...Woodward Stakes to be run at a mile and a quarter at Aqeduct today, has already been termed the race of the century. For perhaps the first time in racing history, one race may decide not only the three-year old and handicap championships, but Horse of the Year honors as well...
Once considered unbeatable. Buckpasser was soundly defeated in the Brooklyn Handicap by Handsome Boy. But Handsome Boy had a 20-pound weight advantage in that race which he will not enjoy under the weight-for-age conditions of the Woodward: both will cary 126 pounds...
Hitch's biggest initial handicap is that he is a relatively unknown quantity to students and faculty. "Before his name came up," said Allan Mann, editor of U.C.L.A.'s Daily Bruin, "99% of us had never heard of him." Yet U.C.L.A. Student Government President Joseph Rubinstein considered it "a healthy sign that the regents have chosen an administrator-now we'll get things done." A faculty advisory committee reported that it was "happy" about the selection. No stranger to contentious factions in Government, Hitch has little apprehension of the potential frictions he will have to contend with...
...tumbled into the murder business by accident; he isn't crass enough for silk scarves and tophats to look appropriately ridiculous on him. Ralph Meeker, his Irish contender, is more like a gangster. His grubby soul shines right through his lovely suit. George Segal, another Irishman, has Robards handicap-elemental elegance. On top of that, he bears such an incredible resemblance to Robards that when you see him dealing with the other Irishmen, you're sure it's Al baby in disguise, pulling a fast one on his rivals. The woman in a practically woman-less movie is Jean Hale...
...Republican Party's glamorous Governors R-Romney, Reagan and Nelson Rockefeller-bulk big in all talk about 1968. Along with their various assets, however, each of the three has a serious handicap or two: Romney ("hasn't fire," Mormon); Reagan ("too conservative," "too inexperienced"); Rockefeller (party regulars don't like him, divorce). But what if some Republican daydreamer tried to imagine a Republican Governor without blemish: intelligent, telegenic, energetic, young but experienced, "progressive" yet not too progressive. As a matter of fact, the Republicans have three of these too. They are Washington's Daniel Evans...