Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...home appliances) and the crew of his 98-ft. ketch Morning Star knew they had small chance to win. Four times they had made the long haul, and twice they were first across the finish line off Diamond Head. But in both races the complicated calculations of the handicap formula* had given another ship the prize. This year Skipper Rheem, sailing against a record 52 other yachts, was ready to settle for the satisfaction of breaking his own uncorrected record crossing time...
When a new state government took office last month, the job of Minister of Culture went to aggressive, 34-year-old Leonhard Schlüter. He had been a hard, bright, ambitious youngster in Hitler's Germany. His mother was half-Jewish, but somehow even this did not handicap him too much. While some of his relatives were killed in concentration camps, young Schlüter went into Hitler's Wehrmacht, won a decoration in France, was wounded and discharged, then entered the University of Göttingen as a law student...
...time she was to become strangely grateful for the tragedy. Because of her own handicap, she developed a natural sympathy for children who had also suffered. Eventually she found a way to help them. In 1925 she became the first of New Orleans' "visiting teachers"-a dedicated band of men and women whose duty it is to care for the school system's handicapped and troubled pupils. Last week, as 65-year-old Carmelite Janvier prepared to retire as director of the city's Division of Special Services, she and her colleagues were caring for nearly...
...conference of the leaders of any but the friendliest of nations contains two almost insurmountable handicaps. If final decisions are made, they are often hasty and ill-considered, based sometimes on factors as weak as personal bonds. The papier-mache treaty structure of the decade following the first world war and the conferences of the second, all the result of "high-level conversations," are indisputable proof of this handicap. The second grave defect is that meetings at the summit often will produce only propaganda and enmity. In actuality, the forthcoming four-power meeting will not be mainly among the heads...
...Lugging the top weight in the race (130 Ibs.), King Ranch's brown colt High Gun, competing for the first time this year, worried his backers by swinging wide on the stretch turn, then straightened out to run away from an impressive field and won the Metropolitan Handicap by 4½ lengths at Belmont Park...