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...when was the last time you saw soft-drink vendors in the end zone of the home of the Los Angeles Raiders playing football with the only tossable item they had at hand, a rat-tailed pocket comb? This was a few days before the Olympics began. They huddled, faked, threw screen passes, ran broken-field, clutching that little comb as if it were a grail. "Man," said one, "I always wanted to play the Coliseum." You couldn't have counted the goose bumps...
...North Carolina, a movie crew builds an entire replica of an elaborate 250-year-old Southern mansion-and proceeds to burn it to the ground. Bands of talent scouts comb through used-car lots from Montana to Kentucky in search of their newest star-to-be: a 1958 Plymouth Fury...
Last week lawmen were searching for leads and suspects in the grisly slayings near Kilgore (pop. 11,000), an affluent town 100 miles east of Dallas. Officials were so stumped that Rusk County Sheriff Mike Strong brought in two psychics to comb the oilfield where the victims were found for any clues to the puzzle. Ballistic and autopsy reports showed that two guns had been used to fire eleven bullets into the five bodies. Some $2,000 was missing from the restaurant cash register, and jewelry, billfolds, purses and other valuables had been taken from the victims...
Early in the process, admissions officials comb the country, recruiting students from different, backgrounds and for various reasons. They write to notable students who have won awards such as Merit Scholarships or talented athletes that Harvard coaches suggest they might like playing for them. Besides those lists, officials also make a special effort to work with high school counselors, alumni organizations, and Harvard students to gather the names of qualified minority students...
Jorge Luis Borges, 83, Argentine author, on last year's island war between Britain and his country: "The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb...