Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Male Press Box. In her predominantly man's world, Bachelor-Girl McCluggage is finding that her sex can be both a handicap and an asset. At the Indianapolis 500 last spring she was barred from the all-male press box, had to interview drivers through a hole in the fence. "They hate me out there," she says frankly, "and I hate them." But she has less trouble than many of her male co-workers in knocking down the reserve of reticent athletes. A recent example: Toni Sailer, Austria's world champion skier. "All accounts...
...Brewster admitted that on occasion he had helped himself to union funds to pay for personal expenses, specifically for the transportation, and "possibly" for the lodging, of a jockey and a trainer employed by his stables (Brewster's colt, Alderman, won Hollywood Park's $50,000 Sunset Handicap in 1951). But, Brewster insisted, he intended all the while to pay the union back-still does. The trouble is that he does not really know how much he owes, since-Brewster said-a janitor had mistaken the Western Conference's pre-1954 records for trash (Brewster...
...reason given for this handicap is attributed to the greater attraction for jobs in other industries as compared to textiles. Despite the reduction of jobs, a textile labor scarcity does exist. Harris recommended a wage high enough to keep workers attached to the industry and yet not so high as to bring unemployment...
...original cast of Colgate Salsbury '57, Harold Scott '57, D. J. Sullivan '57, and Robert Hesse '59 will put on the play without the advantage of a set. Aaron at first objected to taking the play to Yale because of this handicap, but said that he hoped to improvise...
Another serious handicap to course reduction is its lack of publicity. Students can learn about it in various official