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...Killian Jr., chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation; Frederick Seitz, president of the National Academy of Sciences; Emilio Segrè, Berkeley's Nobel Laureate in physics; Athelstan Spilhaus, former dean of the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. That kind of backing helped Winstead overcome a handicap of most new schools: lack of accreditation. Impressed by the credentials of Nova's advisers, the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools advised Washington that Nova should qualify for federal funds...
Riding Ada L. Rice's Advocator in the $83,700 Grey Lag Handicap at New York's Aqueduct race track six weeks ago, he was grounded for 15 days after he veered sharply in the stretch and blocked three other horses. Advocator won by 1¼ lengths, but was disqualified by the stewards-costing Owner Rice $54,405. Two weeks ago, Ycaza earned another 15-day suspension from New Jersey stewards for rough riding aboard William L. McKnight's three-year-old colt, Dr. Fager, in the $119,200 Jersey Derby at Garden State Park. Going into...
...Johnson also met twice with Italian Premier Aldo Moro, tried to reassure him that the U.S.-sponsored nuclear nonproliferation treaty would not handicap non-nuclear nations from fully developing the industrial applications of atomic energy. He talked for 45 minutes with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, encouraging him to go ahead with his decision to apply for Common Market membership...
...silks worn by the political jockeys are meaningful. Lyndon B. Johnson is resplendent in purple, the royal color, but burdened with weights: a difficult war, the clamor for peace, and L.B.J. himself. After all, what with "image" difficulties and credibility gaps, the President can be his own worst handicap. Peering out from behind Johnson is Bobby Kennedy in shamrock green. Behind him is an aloof Hubert Humphrey, only slightly touched by the presidential purple (some people are more purple than others...
...same time, there is always some fear about the Deans' office "moving in" and taking over control of different aspects of undergraduate life. The dean, according to one top administrator, "can't be a big, flamboyant figure--he has to work quietly...." In addition, Monro had a personal handicap; he doesn't have a Ph.D., and this is said by some to hurt...