Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sunday night at 10:00 o'clock, when the checkered flag drops, the car that has covered the most laps will take the grand prize. Each class will have its own winners, and there will be a performance award for which each car will get a handicap based on its engine displacement. If his luck holds out, Oldtimer René Dreyfus figures that his Arnolt-Bristols will be up among the victors...
...status. As the direct result of this restriction contributions last year dropped from the $18,000 total of the year before to $12,000. But the value of charitable contributions made by students rather than by their parents is indisputable. Students this year should take the Committee's handicap as a challenge to raise their contributions to former levels. The motto of the Combined Charities is "Give once. Give generously. This is the only drive of he year." Translated into negotiable terms this motto means: dig deeply...
Once again much of the team's chances will hinge on the condition of anchor-man Dave Alpers. Alpers, who has been plagued with a back injury during most of the season, will be running with the added handicap of a stubborn cold. If Alpers can still turn in times such as the 48.4 effort which sealed last year's record relay, the team may well outdistance its rivals, and such nationally recognized stars as Villanova's speedster Charlie Jankins...
...most part, by professors from the faculties of the University of Paris, the Ecole do Louvre, and the Comedie Francaise. However, the Harvard student, barring objections from Cambridge, is free to specialize as he wishes. So much for the needless imposition of Sweet Briar restraints, "a large academic handicap" which inflicts a foolish financial burden...
...much is in the wrong direction. Older people are too tired, too confused, too used to blowing with the wind. They are not likely to attempt to give effective expression to their feelings against armaments, once an army is created. The younger ones started their education with a handicap, only recently overcome by the few years of stability when they could begin to learn how fine a life without guns...