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...Here, let me brush the perspiration off your...
...into balmy weather ("My," commented Mamie Eisenhower, "this sun feels good"), Ike drove to Treasury Secretary George Humphrey's 600-acre plantation, "Milestone." Next day he climbed into a mule-drawn hunting wagon and to the soothing clop-clop-clop of two white mules, drove to the dry brush where the quail were hiding. And there, within the hour, the President almost forgot the tensions of the world outside...
...Olympians Bob Gutowski and the Rev. Bob Richards matched each other leap for leap in the pole vault, saw the bar push steadily past 15 ft. At 15 ft. 6 in., Richards sailed over easily. Gutowski felt himself brush the bar, watched it bounce off the standards and looked up from the sawdust pit to see it settle in place. Both failed at 15 ft. 9 in. For Richards the first-place tie was his eleventh consecutive Millrose victory...
...Sunday plunge into the provinces, where his popularity is untouchable. Leaving Malacanan Palace at 6 a.m., he sped north into Tarlac province. Wherever a group of Filipinos had gathered along the roadside to wave and cheer, Magsaysay stuck out his hand and Filipinos would reach out and fleetingly brush his fingertips. Their faces lighted up at the contact; so did his. Whenever the crowd was as big as 200, Magsaysay popped out to shake everybody's hand, then walked down the road for a hundred yards or so as the car slowly followed...
...this precision, Sailer combines not only strength and prime condition, but an astonishing ability to pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for brush strokes in an ink drawing, and somehow seems to fit the smooth, effortless swing down the slopes to an endless list of championships...