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Selby has wangled gloves for a kids' baseball team, taught a Scottish bride-to-be how to season steak before broiling (rub on hot mustard, top with hickory salt), found aquariums for some boys who had brought a batch of snakes back from camp. He has had some failures, too. He had no solution for the woman who wrote: "Sheriff coming to foreclose tomorrow. Please send $4,000 in cash," and he was unable to finance a trip to the Canadian wilds for a would-be Davy Crockett who wanted to kill himself...
...positive side, Geneva loaded the scientists with new ideas. Said one U.S. official: "You can't rub that many good brains together without getting sparks." Among the many sparks...
Told that she had a recurrence of cancer (she underwent surgery in 1953 for a malignancy, and last June for a ruptured spinal disc), Babe Didrikson Zaharias, the world's greatest woman athlete (track and field, basketball, golf), forced a smile and said: "Well, that's the rub of the green...
...customs die hard in a back country. Nowhere in Natal are the traditions of ancient India observed more strictly than on the backwoods Moonsammy banana farm near Sea Cow Lake. In nearby Durban, where many of South Africa's 365,000 Indians rub shoulders with the West, young Indian girls are often permitted to dance and date but Farmer Moonsammy kept his wife and five daughters always in the bondage of purdah, the second-rate status of women in the land of his ancestors. The five girls, ranging in age from 26 to 14, worked hard...
Homer's concern was forgivable: he had predicted an eight-vote triumph for his amendment to restore the Administration's 35,000-unit program, and had laughed, "Lyndon, this time I'm going to rub your nose in it." Now Lyndon was busily wheedling more votes, and gaining time to do it in the name of senatorial courtesy, i.e., fairness to Humphrey...