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...period in American-Soviet relations since the war, the icy implications of the Spitzbergen controversy tend to drive home some basic truths about the state of the peace. If optimists are deluded into believing that all is to be sweetness and light between Washington and the Kremlin they must rub their eyes hard in view of this recent Soviet demand. The logic behind the Russian demand seems to hint that something more than psychology, something more than sympathy, something more than mere patience must be part of the State Department outlook toward the Soviets...
...Okanogan, Wash., a minister of the Gospel was charged with grand larceny. The rub: one Sunday in November, he stole a private plane to fly to services in Spokane...
...Rubdowns. It was a back-breaking job, but so far no one showed signs of cracking. Caterers brought meals in to the offices of both papers. At the Record, steaks, chops and plentiful desserts were served on linen-spread tables gleaming in candlelight. Each day masseurs came in to rub down Stern's high-priced, nonstop help. In Philadelphia the men managed to get home each night, but in Camden the Courier-Post crew slept in cots set up beside their desks, seldom saw their families. At week's end Saylor rasped: "There's nobody here getting...
Exit Hamlet Harlow to sleep! Perchance to dream of an undefeated team--ay, there's the rub. But come the ides of November, and 'ere long even the Bulldog which barks at Yale, Sirrah, may be muzzled by the Crimson gale...
...Rub butter over the burned areas...