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...laboratory--which will be located in the soon-to-be-built Charles A. Dana Research Institute at the Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Hospital--will focus on the biological causes of and treatment for the common perceptual handicap, which afflicts nearly 25 million Americans...
...plea for waging a war on the energy problem, but nothing much happened until after three more years of U.S. dependence on foreign oil. Perhaps it is the soft delivery, often smothering strong lines. Perhaps there is a subconscious lingering national prejudice against Carter's Southern style. Whatever the handicap, Carter's words carry no command, even when the need to follow seems clear...
...women executives in the U.S. reacted, for the most part, angrily to the Cunningham resignation. Many said that Agee was at least equally responsible because he naively made executive romance a topic for public speculation. Others bitterly complained that the Bendix matter will make brains plus beauty a terrible handicap for a woman in business. Asked one New York adwoman: "Do you have to look like Gertrude Stein to get ahead...
...Thus the outcome may turn largely on the candidates' campaign styles. Rudman is jovial and smooth, a "pussycat," as one campaign follower says. By contrast, Durkin is blunt and brusque; even Wife Pat concedes that "John isn't the smoothest character in town." But this is no handicap in New Hampshire, where voters prefer their politicians to be flinty...
...have been completed. Reagan has been airing seven spots, while four more are in production. One on economics is scheduled to appear ten times this week in two different lengths. Reagan's experts estimate that the average TV viewer will see it at least twice. Anderson's handicap has been money. Three Anderson ads were aired this summer and more are planned-if the money is there...