Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family cruising. The Cal-40s are all business: short on finery, heavy on sail and with a light (15,500 Ibs.) hull that thumbs its nose at the intricate rites of rating-the official formula that calculates waterline length against sail area to determine the boat's racing handicap. Ordinarily a designer slaves to achieve the lowest possible rating, thus the highest handicap. Designer Bill Lap-worth, 46, who had been teaming with Builder Jack Jensen, 40, for five years on smaller fiber-glass models, didn't even consider the matter...
Three-Year Handicap. Lockheed could still increase the size of its SST entry to match Boeing's, but it would have to hurry. Both companies must submit their final designs to the Government by Sept. 6, as must General Electric and the Pratt & Whitney division of United Aircraft Corp., which are battling for the $6 billion worth of jet-engine business. The airlines and the Federal Aviation Agency hope to pick two winners by January, award a contract to build a prototype followed by production models that will fly commercially...
...COMMUNISM: "There is no need to fight Communism as an economic system-it is failing in Russia; it is failing in China. Marx has been and is a terrible handicap to these nations."-retired Ford Motor Co. Vice President Theodore Yntema at Caltech...
...shrewdest duffer in Buckinghamshire sized up the competition and decided: don't get licked-join him. So Britain's Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 50, who plays golf with a handicap of 18, arranged for Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, 42, to be on his side against two of 'Arold's customary golfing partners, a pair of businessmen. That was a neat stroke, since Lee, in England on an eight-day visit, handles the clubs better than almost any Prime Minister in the world. But after a half-hour's play...
...time was really only a warmup: later, in his three-week exhibition tour of the U.S., he will play 15 games simultaneously in Boston. It hardly mattered that he eventually lost two games while winning five and drawing two; he had conceded each of his honorable opponents a generous handicap, without which it would have been a rout...