Word: handicapping
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...Africa. The child is a full-fledged field hand at nine-often at six. When he invades a new area, crowded schools wink at attendance laws. Falling behind, he quits school by the fourth grade. He is the nation's greatest single source of illiteracy, and by that handicap, condemned to repeat the hopeless life of his parents. He desperately needs education-and a sense of worth...
...growing favorite in Pravda, official handicap sheet of the Soviet Communist hierarchy: mop-haired Mikhail A. Suslov, 58, party braintruster and veteran member of the Presidium. Three times last week Pravda quoted lengthily from "important" Suslov speeches. Unsurprising contents of all three: fawning eulogies of steady booster Nikita Khrushchev. . . . Wealthy Pasta King Giovanni Buitoni's money is in his tummy, but his heart is really in his throat. The 68-year-old macaroni maker is going into opera, he says, to "fulfill one of my fondest dreams," will sing the basso profundo role of Don Basilic in a charity...
...urging, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. publicly apologized to Humphrey for "unnecessary and unwarranted statements" he had made while campaigning for Kennedy in West Virginia-innuendoes that Humphrey had dodged military service in World War II (physical disabilities kept him out of service). But Hubert Humphrey carries a heavy handicap: as an unbridled liberal, he is disliked in the South, has no appeal to independent voters...
...Nelson Rockefeller as the Republican choice for President. As U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for the past seven years, he has acquired national repute as the deft negotiator who talks tough to the Russians during world crises and generally comes out on the winning side. Lodge has a handicap that some Nixonites think will weigh against him if Kennedy is the Democratic presidential nominee: Lodge lost his Senate seat to Kennedy...
...from classic, she gets a whopping break under the Cruising Club of America Measurement Rule, a complex, formula-ridden system of giving the short and stout a time allowance to cancel the inherent speed advantage of the long and lean. Though Finisterre finished 31st in the Bermuda fleet, her handicap of 24 hr. 41 min. gave her victory...