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...Mays has been playing for 16 years, and he is beginning to act-or at least talk-like a man approaching middle age. He no longer gleefully plays stickball with the kids in the street; golf (9 handicap) is his leisure game. He speaks of his retirement day as if it were almost within reach, doesn't hesitate to mention that "I need my rest"-ten or twelve hours a night. He neither smokes nor drinks...
...being serialized meanwhile in Good Housekeeping. The First Lady bombarded him with memos, "usually in outrage," protesting "deficiencies in my efforts to preserve the privacy of the children." One little-known factor with in the Kennedy menage was the President's allergy to animal fur-a handicap he bore nobly in view of the expansive zoo of dogs, hamsters, ponies and other pets maintained by the Kennedy children. One of the hamsters doubtless attained rodentian nirvana by drowning in the presidential bathtub...
...family cruising. The Cal-40s are all business: short on finery, heavy on sail and with a light (15,500 Ibs.) hull that thumbs its nose at the intricate rites of rating-the official formula that calculates waterline length against sail area to determine the boat's racing handicap. Ordinarily a designer slaves to achieve the lowest possible rating, thus the highest handicap. Designer Bill Lap-worth, 46, who had been teaming with Builder Jack Jensen, 40, for five years on smaller fiber-glass models, didn't even consider the matter...
Three-Year Handicap. Lockheed could still increase the size of its SST entry to match Boeing's, but it would have to hurry. Both companies must submit their final designs to the Government by Sept. 6, as must General Electric and the Pratt & Whitney division of United Aircraft Corp., which are battling for the $6 billion worth of jet-engine business. The airlines and the Federal Aviation Agency hope to pick two winners by January, award a contract to build a prototype followed by production models that will fly commercially...
...COMMUNISM: "There is no need to fight Communism as an economic system-it is failing in Russia; it is failing in China. Marx has been and is a terrible handicap to these nations."-retired Ford Motor Co. Vice President Theodore Yntema at Caltech...