Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancestors, and to play at St. Andrews. In a Cumnock cemetery Mac almost stumbled over a fallen tombstone inscribed: "Here lies John McLatchie, died in 1797." It gave him a start, Mac says, to see his own name on a tombstone. On the Old Course at St. Andrews eight-handicap Golfer McLatchie, according to his diary, "shot an 84 with three birdies and a horrible...
...Ballard & Ballard flour mills, now owned by Pillsbury), performed admirably in his three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, has since been valuable to the Eisenhower Administration as Assistant Secretary of State in charge of congressional liaison. But Thruston (rhymes with Houston) Morton also has a statewide political handicap in historically Democratic Kentucky. He is a Republican...
Last week Morton decided that this was just the season to overcome his handicap. He resigned from the State Department and announced that he would run for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Democrat Earle Clements. Morton's hopes were based on the feud between Clements and Governor "Happy" Chandler (TIME. Feb. 20) and on the possibility that Dwight Eisenhower may lead the Republican ticket this year. Whether Ike runs or not, he got Morton off to a running start with a blue-ribbon resignation-acceptance letter. Wrote Ike: "You have not only earned the profound respect...
Sections of the track were periodically removed so that dashmen and hurdlers would have a clear lane to their finish line. High jumpers rolled over the bar. Seconds after they started, handicap relays were too confused for the casual fan; runners were spread out over the track. And through it all, pole vaulters kept on jumping, and a proud, tux-togged official rode high in the basket of a finger lift to replace the bar when someone missed...
...Biggest handicap to progress in the peaceful uses of atomic energy, said the report, is Government-imposed secrecy. It recommended that the Atomic Energy Commission "remove all reactor technology from the restricted data category, including such areas as fuel element fabrication and processing techniques," and keep secret only the military applications of atomic energy. As it is, private enterprise lacks the information on which it can make intelligent decisions, e.g., a utility might invest heavily in a nuclear-fission power plant when AEC is sitting on the facts about a better system...