Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Angelo Rizzoli, 74, does not speak the English, but as Italy's richest publisher (Oggi, L'Europeo), he doesn't need to. Still, it can be a handicap at a Manhattan party. He was in town from Hollywood where 8½, one of the 150 movies he has produced on the side, won two Academy Awards, and his New York branch threw a do. Mostly no capisc Americans made the scene until Christina Austin, 34, Italy's current reigning beauty (Manhattan division) appeared, and he greeted her with a heartfelt hand buss. Since...
...official statement of moral support, she said, would be "outside our province" and "might handicap things we could do in other ways...
...school is in a somewhat remote rural location. The physical location, however is much less of a handicap to our joint venture than the psyhological isolation which silence from Cambridge can impose," he said...
Shriver's chief handicap is that he is not extremely well known and has never held elective office. Johnson understands this deficiency. He made Shriver director of the war on poverty partly to increase Shriver's reputation and political stock...
...state, is the Governor of a neighboring state. Moreover, New Hampshire's postage-stamp size seemed made to order for Rockefeller's ebullient, back-slapping brand of campaigning. Beyond question, Rocky made gains in the closing weeks, but not nearly enough to overcome the political handicap of his divorce and remarriage. That handicap will likely plague him wherever he goes. But after his New Hampshire defeat, he put on an optimistic air. Lodge's win, he said, was "a victory for moderation," since the voters had rejected "extremism in the party." He insisted that he had made...