Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Citation, the $56,250 American Handicap, first stakes victory in his latest comeback campaign, over stablemate Bewitch, by half a length; at Inglewood, Calif. The victory, worth $33,050, brought Citation's lifetime earnings...
...Early Handicap. But the Skyrocket had started its career with a handicap. Unlike the X-1, it was designed to take off and climb with its own power. A turbojet engine was crammed into the narrow needle-nosed fuselage. There were rocket motors too, for speed runs, but they gulped fuel at a ton a minute from tanks cut down to accommodate the powerful turbojet and its accessories. Rocket thrust was never available to the pilot long enough for the plane to approach top speed...
...small, intimate stage becomes a handicap here. Every facial expression and every smudge of greasepaint is detectable. Farce, therefore, is perhaps too hectic a medium for such an intimate stage. The closeness of exaggerated gestures and the raucousness of the comedy become annoying, especially in this amateur production...
...Whitney's Counterpoint (114 Ibs.), the $24,950 Peter Pan Handicap, over Battlefield (123 Ibs.) and six other three-year-old nominees for this week's Belmont Stakes, setting a track record (1:47-4/5) for the mile-and-one-eighth; at New York...
...Brant Rentschler, boss of Pratt & Whitney and its parent United Aircraft Corp., thinks the J57 has more pizzazz than any other engine. Says he flatly: "It is more powerful than any jet engine ever flown." Moreover, he thinks the J57 has gone a long way to overcome a great handicap of jets, their enormous fuel consumption. United's engineers say that it uses less fuel than anybody else has even promised for an engine of its size...