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...excitement to a country that experiences it only rarely. He has also established his own reputation among small but demanding groups of readers in Argentina and around the world. Plagued by an inherited eye disease, he is now, at 62, totally blind, but continues to write. "Blindness is no handicap for a writer of fantasy," he says. "It leaves the mind free and unhampered to explore the depths and heights of human imagination...
...Chairman Fountain told it, Manuel would be a "serious handicap" to the investigation. Manuel retorted that "this investigation is being distorted-and the truth suppressed-either because of shoddy preparation or a willingness to cover up." The report, he said, was not legally classified. It was stamped " 'administratively confidential,' which meant that it contained politically embarrassing material that the Department of Agriculture wanted to keep from the public." Manuel charged that the subcommittee had tried to keep the name of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson out of the public record. An Agriculture Department official, said Manuel, told...
...face "the leer of a sex-mad ogre, and worse, far worse, the bloated, unnatural look of the crass commercialist." In his latest example of sincere sex, for which he has already received $320,000 from his publisher and MGM, Wallace has sportingly given himself a heavy handicap: his subject is the men and women who win the Nobel Prize, but Wallace's intellectual giants have feet of such soft clay that they find it difficult to stay upright for longer than a chapter...
...extra degree helps a career is problematical. In , when you begin, you very near the bottom. And study delays embarking career by a number of years, it could be a handicap as easily as it could be an aid. And someone to Oxford in order to advance business career is suffering from a bad case of mixed motives. with a bow to Time's fabled that does not sound like the I knew...
...Unable to win a stakes race this year, Jack Price's plucky, long-tailed Carry Back staged a stirring comeback in the $111,900 Metropolitan Handicap at New York's Aqueduct race track. Skillfully ridden by Jockey Johnny Rotz, the horse that won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness last year, but broke down in the Belmont Stakes and now rated only 9-to-2 odds, dawdled twelve lengths behind the leaders through the backstretch, turned it on at the close to win by a gallant 2½ lengths. A well-beaten sixth: Mrs. Richard...