Word: handicaps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chairman Fountain told it, Manuel would be a "serious handicap" to the investigation. Manuel retorted that "this investigation is being distorted-and the truth suppressed-either because of shoddy preparation or a willingness to cover up." The report, he said, was not legally classified. It was stamped " 'administratively confidential,' which meant that it contained politically embarrassing material that the Department of Agriculture wanted to keep from the public." Manuel charged that the subcommittee had tried to keep the name of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson out of the public record. An Agriculture Department official, said Manuel, told...
...extra degree helps a career is problematical. In , when you begin, you very near the bottom. And study delays embarking career by a number of years, it could be a handicap as easily as it could be an aid. And someone to Oxford in order to advance business career is suffering from a bad case of mixed motives. with a bow to Time's fabled that does not sound like the I knew...
...Unable to win a stakes race this year, Jack Price's plucky, long-tailed Carry Back staged a stirring comeback in the $111,900 Metropolitan Handicap at New York's Aqueduct race track. Skillfully ridden by Jockey Johnny Rotz, the horse that won both the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness last year, but broke down in the Belmont Stakes and now rated only 9-to-2 odds, dawdled twelve lengths behind the leaders through the backstretch, turned it on at the close to win by a gallant 2½ lengths. A well-beaten sixth: Mrs. Richard...
They ought to put a 20-lb. weight on him, handicap him like a race horse, to give the rest of us a chance." At 32, Palmer is a hero out of Runyon -a passionate gambler, an electric showman. His desire to win is so strong that finishing second-even though it makes him rich-is only a little less distasteful than finishing last. "The desire is the thing," he says. "You have to keep yourself under control, to believe in yourself...
...face a squad analyzed by Coach Jack Barnaby as "tough, though lacking in individual stars." He added that Amherst has depth and a home-court advantage, so "we can't count on anything." The fact that the team has to travel on the day of the match is another handicap. "We went to Dartmouth a day early and won," commented Barnaby. "The baseball team came up the day of the game and lost...