... his share of prestige and fame. He has spent a weekend with President Carter in the White House. You may remember he was with Bobby Kennedy when Bobby was shot in 1968. It was Roosevelt Grier who wrestled Sirhan Sirhan to the ground and took his gun and at the same time protected Sirhan from a crowd angry enough to kill him. Where is Roosevelt Grier today? He and his wife Margie are educating and equipping young kids in the Los Angeles inner city to become independent, productive adults. His organization is ...
... snakes in the desert that show how horrible an infestation of poisonous snakes like the one in Numbers 21:4–9 can be: On my dry patience they grated a little, because the plague of snakes which had been with us since our first entry into Sirhan to-day rose to memorable height, and became a terror. In ordinary times, so the Arabs said, snakes were little worse here than elsewhere by water in the desert: but this year the valley seemed creeping with horned vipers and puff-adders, cobras and black snakes ...