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...adherents of the sport. He uses an automatic reel, for instance, considered quite gauche by purists. He blends a mixture of gasoline and an oily substance called Mucilin to use as dry-fly ointment. He stumbled on his own version of the green drake when he noticed the rubber mat unraveling from an old throw rug and worked it into his fly to give it body without adding significant weight. When he is suited up for fishing, his short-billed pipefitter's cap, pulled down over the half-moon of white on his forehead, and the crisscrossing of jerry...
...folksy sort of test, carried out with such implements as a pocket flash light, an orange rubber ball, a paper clip, some popcorn kernels. The exam starts when the baby is asleep, and it gauges the infant's reactions to a series of stimuli, including light in the eyes, the sound of rattling, a scratch on the foot: 20 reflexes and 26 behavioral responses in all. After 20 minutes or so, a Brazeltonized baby is wide awake and none too happy about all the testing...
There are rules regarding the personal customizing of bats, as Yankee Third Baseman Graig Nettles well knows. Several seasons ago, the barrel of Nettles' bat went off embarrassingly and a spray of little rubber balls shot forth. Nettles was the first man ever to bounce out to the third baseman, the shortstop and the second baseman all at once. Recently in Kansas City, he noticed Brett's bat was duty and mentioned it to Coach Don Zimmer...
...Greenpeace members went ashore to hand out leaflets to workers at the whale-processing plant. Suddenly a contingent of Soviet soldiers arrived and arrested the six. A Greenpeace member who was still aboard the Rainbow Warrior grabbed film that other members had shot and jumped into a motorized rubber boat to rush it back to Alaska. But a Soviet helicopter swooped down and plucked him out of the boat...
...restricted but ritualized duties. Each year, he symbolically plants seedlings of rice on the 284-acre palace grounds; at least 20 times annually he dons flowing traditional costume as the nation's highest-ranking Shinto priest. In addition, each weekday he diligently repairs to his office to rubber-stamp government appointments, welcome foreign envoys and brushstroke his signature on an annual flood of 2,000 state papers. In return, the state devotes $41.1 million a year to the upkeep of palace property, including a taxable stipend of $936,000 for the Emperor...